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221 West 79th Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

221 West 79th Street is an 8-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1896, managed by Castagnello Realty LLC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.4 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.

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Units
8
Year built
1896
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.

2.1/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
7
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Castagnello Realty LLC manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 76 apartments.

open violations
50open violations
immediately hazardous
9immediately hazardous
311 complaints
9311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per 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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