485 Columbus Avenue
Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024
485 Columbus Avenue is a 16-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1887, managed by Brusco Realty MGMT LLC. The City has 24 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 5 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 Brusco Realty MGMT LLC
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- Units
- 16
- Year built
- 1887
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side (Central)
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
5tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
24open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 4
- Hazardous
- 5
- Non-hazardous
- 15
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings10
- Doors, windows and locks4
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Other repairs3
- Pests1
- Heat or hot water1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Brusco Realty MGMT LLC manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 37 apartments.
- open violations
- 28open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 6immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 51311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.8per apartment
in the past year
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
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