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203 West 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

203 West 81st Street is a 55-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1920, managed by Siren Management CORP. The City has 57 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.0 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 12 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Siren Management CORP

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Units
55
Year built
1920
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.

2.8/5About 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.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 12 days · neighborhood median is 4

57open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.0 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
27
Non-hazardous
25

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings17
  • Leaks, damp or mould9
  • Smoke and CO alarms7
  • Heat or hot water7
  • Doors, windows and locks5

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Siren Management CORP manages 26 other buildings we cover, holding 891 apartments.

open violations
327open violations
immediately hazardous
35immediately hazardous
311 complaints
28311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.4per 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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