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253 West 16th Street

Manhattan · Chelsea-Hudson Yards, NY 10011

253 West 16th Street is a 53-apartment building in Chelsea-Hudson Yards, built in 1930, managed by Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC. The City has 75 open housing-code violations on file for it, 17 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). Tenants filed 501 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 16 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 Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC

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Units
53
Year built
1930
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.

1.8/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

501tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 151 the year before

Typically closed in 16 days · neighborhood median is 5

75open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
17
Hazardous
45
Non-hazardous
13

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings17
  • Doors, windows and locks16
  • Pests11
  • Smoke and CO alarms9
  • Other repairs8
  • Heat or hot water4

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 329 apartments.

open violations
134open violations
immediately hazardous
11immediately hazardous
311 complaints
9311 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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