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605 West 42nd Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10036

605 West 42nd Street is a 1,166-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 2008, managed by Columbus Property Management. The City has 76 open housing-code violations on file for it, 13 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.07 per apartment, well below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 185 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 14 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 Columbus Property Management

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Units
1166
Year built
2008
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.

4.1/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

185tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 191 the year before

Typically closed in 14 days · neighborhood median is 5

76open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

5 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
13
Hazardous
41
Non-hazardous
22

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings30
  • Doors, windows and locks10
  • Other repairs9
  • Smoke and CO alarms8
  • Leaks, damp or mould8
  • Pests3

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 12 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Columbus Property Management manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 1,574 apartments.

open violations
98open violations
immediately hazardous
30immediately hazardous
311 complaints
138311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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 605 West 42nd Street yet.

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