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42 West 56th Street

Manhattan · Midtown-Times Square, NY 10019

42 West 56th Street is a 6-apartment building in Midtown-Times Square, built in 1915, managed by Emmes Asset Management Company. The City has no open housing-code violations on file for it (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 4 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Emmes Asset Management Company

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Units
6
Year built
1915
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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

4tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before

0open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Emmes Asset Management Company manages 8 other buildings we cover, holding 68 apartments.

open violations
26open violations
immediately hazardous
8immediately hazardous
311 complaints
26311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 42 West 56th Street yet.

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