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477 Amsterdam Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

477 Amsterdam Avenue is an 8-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1890, managed by XL Real Property Management. The City has 93 open housing-code violations on file for it, 20 of them immediately hazardous, about 11.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by XL Real Property Management

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Units
8
Year built
1890
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.

1.0/5Among 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.

Complaints are down from 20 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before

93open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 11.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
20
Hazardous
61
Non-hazardous
12

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings44
  • Heat or hot water14
  • Doors, windows and locks12
  • Leaks, damp or mould11
  • Other repairs6
  • Electrical5

Housing Court

The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

XL Real Property Management manages 81 other buildings we cover, holding 482 apartments.

open violations
253open violations
immediately hazardous
62immediately hazardous
311 complaints
51311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.5per 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 477 Amsterdam Avenue yet.

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