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228 West 71st Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, NY 10023

228 West 71st Street is a 169-apartment building in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, built in 1917, managed by Equity Residential Management LLC. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, all 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). Tenants filed 5 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Equity Residential Management LLC

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Units
169
Year built
1917
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.

5.0/5Little on recordScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 8 to 5 year on year.

5tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 8 the year before

2open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Pests1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Equity Residential Management LLC manages 20 other buildings we cover, holding 4,432 apartments.

open violations
171open violations
immediately hazardous
34immediately hazardous
311 complaints
560311 complaints

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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 228 West 71st Street yet.

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