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500 West 42nd Street

Manhattan · Chelsea-Hudson Yards, NY 10036

500 West 42nd Street is a 25-apartment building in Chelsea-Hudson Yards, built in 2001, managed by Clinton Housing Dev. CO. The City has 23 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.92 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 22 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 15 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 Clinton Housing Dev. CO.

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Units
25
Year built
2001
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.

2.2/5Worse than most 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 50 to 22 year on year.

13 repairs have been cleared since our last check.

22tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 50 the year before

Typically closed in 15 days · neighborhood median is 5

23open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.9 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
7
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
12

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Pests5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Plumbing2
  • Electrical2

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 3 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Clinton Housing Dev. CO manages 15 other buildings we cover, holding 489 apartments.

open violations
557open violations
immediately hazardous
115immediately hazardous
311 complaints
228311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.1per 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

Nobody has written about 500 West 42nd Street yet.

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