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473 Columbus Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

473 Columbus Avenue is a 16-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1886, managed by A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP. The City has 19 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 1.2 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 8 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP

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Units
16
Year built
1886
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.

2.6/5About average for the areaScored 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before

19open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
11
Non-hazardous
7

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms5
  • Rubbish and cleanliness5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Pests3
  • Doors, windows and locks2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP manages 106 other buildings we cover, holding 1,977 apartments.

open violations
1,276open violations
immediately hazardous
269immediately hazardous
311 complaints
297311 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.)

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