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250 West 50th Street

Manhattan · Midtown-Times Square, NY 10019

250 West 50th Street is a 550-apartment building in Midtown-Times Square, built in 1998, managed by Avalonbay Communities, INC. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.02 per apartment, about double the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 30 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 17 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 Avalonbay Communities, INC.

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Units
550
Year built
1998
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.

4.7/5Little on recordScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

30tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before

Typically closed in 17 days · neighborhood median is 4

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Other repairs3
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Smoke and CO alarms1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Avalonbay Communities, INC manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 3,095 apartments.

open violations
17open violations
immediately hazardous
1immediately hazardous
311 complaints
55311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 250 West 50th Street yet.

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