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169 West 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

169 West 81st Street is a 20-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1890, managed by Stellar Management. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.80 per apartment, roughly three times 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 Stellar Management

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Units
20
Year built
1890
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.

2.9/5About average for the areaScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 2 to 0 year on year.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
13
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Heat or hot water3
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Other repairs2
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Smoke and CO alarms2

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Stellar Management manages 25 other buildings we cover, holding 1,823 apartments.

open violations
632open violations
immediately hazardous
100immediately hazardous
311 complaints
235311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per apartment

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

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