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405 West 40th Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10018

Also listed by the City as 541 9th Avenue

405 West 40th Street is a 38-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1890, managed by Clinton Housing Dev. CO. The City has 107 open housing-code violations on file for it, 13 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.8 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 19 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 24 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 Clinton Housing Dev. CO.

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Units
38
Year built
1890
Neighborhood
Hell's Kitchen
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.

1.4/5Among 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.

19tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 14 the year before

Typically closed in 24 days · neighborhood median is 5

107open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
13
Hazardous
72
Non-hazardous
22

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings32
  • Doors, windows and locks17
  • Heat or hot water12
  • Smoke and CO alarms12
  • Other repairs11
  • Leaks, damp or mould10

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 3 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Clinton Housing Dev. CO manages 15 other buildings we cover, holding 476 apartments.

open violations
451open violations
immediately hazardous
103immediately hazardous
311 complaints
225311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.9per 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

Nobody has written about 405 West 40th Street yet.

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