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439 West 50th Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019

439 West 50th Street is a 12-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1901, managed by Centennial Properties NY. The City has 43 open housing-code violations on file for it, 15 of them immediately hazardous, about 3.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 23 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 Centennial Properties NY

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Units
12
Year built
1901
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.

1.2/5Among 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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 55 to 23 year on year.

23tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 55 the year before

43open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 3.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
15
Hazardous
23
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Heat or hot water10
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings8
  • Smoke and CO alarms6
  • Doors, windows and locks4
  • Other repairs4
  • Leaks, damp or mould3

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Centennial Properties NY manages 71 other buildings we cover, holding 1,218 apartments.

open violations
791open violations
immediately hazardous
273immediately hazardous
311 complaints
779311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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 439 West 50th Street yet.

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