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481 Columbus Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

481 Columbus Avenue is an 11-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1886, managed by J&M Realty Services CORP. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.82 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 9 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 J&M Realty Services CORP.

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Units
11
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.

9tenant complaints

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

9open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.8 per apartment

3 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Other repairs3
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Heat or hot water1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

J&M Realty Services CORP manages 23 other buildings we cover, holding 377 apartments.

open violations
143open violations
immediately hazardous
30immediately hazardous
311 complaints
31311 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

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