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540 West 53rd Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019

540 West 53rd Street is a 103-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 2016, managed by Clinton Housing Dev. CO. The City has 23 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.22 per apartment, close to 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 Clinton Housing Dev. CO.

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Units
103
Year built
2016
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.

4.3/5Better 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 5-day neighborhood median.

21 repairs have been cleared since our last check.

9tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 7 the year before

23open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
12

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks10
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Other repairs1
  • Electrical1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 4 times since October 2023. The court entered judgment against the owner in 1 case.

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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 411 apartments.

open violations
549open violations
immediately hazardous
118immediately hazardous
311 complaints
238311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.3per 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 540 West 53rd Street yet.

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