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501 West 51st Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019

501 West 51st Street is a 22-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1900, managed by Clinton Housing Dev. CO. The City has 86 open housing-code violations on file for it, 22 of them immediately hazardous, about 3.9 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 30 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 7 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
22
Year built
1900
Neighborhood
Hell's Kitchen
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.

1.1/5Among 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.

30tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 34 the year before

Typically closed in 7 days · neighborhood median is 5

86open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 3.9 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
22
Hazardous
49
Non-hazardous
15

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings22
  • Leaks, damp or mould22
  • Heat or hot water12
  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Pests4

Housing Court

The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Clinton Housing Dev. CO manages 15 other buildings we cover, holding 492 apartments.

open violations
507open violations
immediately hazardous
102immediately hazardous
311 complaints
222311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.0per 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 501 West 51st Street yet.

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