161 West 61st Street
Manhattan · Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, NY 10023
161 West 61st Street is a 219-apartment building in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, built in 1988, managed by Halstead Management CO. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.01 per apartment, well below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Halstead Management CO.
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- Units
- 219
- Year built
- 1988
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
- Borough
- Manhattan
This building’s record with the City
Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.
Complaints are down from 1 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before
3open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 2
- Hazardous
- 0
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings2
- Doors, windows and locks1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Halstead Management CO manages 164 other buildings we cover, holding 14,371 apartments.
- open violations
- 1,085open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 132immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 270311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per apartment
in the past year
The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 161 West 61st Street yet.
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