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204 West 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

204 West 81st Street is a 20-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1920, managed by SKY Management CORP. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.65 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 14 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 6 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 SKY Management CORP.

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Units
20
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.

2.3/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

14tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before

Typically closed in 6 days · neighborhood median is 4

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
6
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings9
  • Pests5
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

SKY Management CORP manages 36 other buildings we cover, holding 899 apartments.

open violations
535open violations
immediately hazardous
132immediately hazardous
311 complaints
221311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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.)

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