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272 West 86th Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

Also listed by the City as 274 West 86th Street

272 West 86th Street is a 7-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1910, managed by Synoptic Management CORP. The City has 25 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 3.6 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.

Managed by Synoptic Management CORP

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Units
7
Year built
1910
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.

1.7/5Among the worst on record 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

25open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 3.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
25
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Leaks, damp or mould4
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Pests3
  • Paint and plaster2
  • Other repairs2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Synoptic Management CORP manages 75 other buildings we cover, holding 1,392 apartments.

open violations
426open violations
immediately hazardous
57immediately hazardous
311 complaints
43311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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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