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520 Amsterdam Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

520 Amsterdam Avenue is a 76-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1929, managed by Argo Real Estate, LLC. The City has 14 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.18 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 37 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 Argo Real Estate, LLC

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Units
76
Year built
1929
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.

3.8/5Better than most nearbyScored 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.

37tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 32 the year before

14open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Pests1
  • Doors, windows and locks1

Housing Court

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Argo Real Estate, LLC manages 54 other buildings we cover, holding 3,180 apartments.

open violations
492open violations
immediately hazardous
50immediately hazardous
311 complaints
82311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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 520 Amsterdam Avenue yet.

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