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421 Amsterdam Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

Also listed by the City as 185 West 80th Street

421 Amsterdam Avenue is an 8-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1888, managed by New Bedford Management CORP. The City has 35 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 4.4 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by New Bedford Management CORP.

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Units
8
Year built
1888
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.

2.0/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year

35open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 4.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
16
Non-hazardous
18

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings15
  • Doors, windows and locks8
  • Other repairs7
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

New Bedford Management CORP manages 78 other buildings we cover, holding 2,900 apartments.

open violations
753open violations
immediately hazardous
138immediately hazardous
311 complaints
103311 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 28 September 2026.)

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