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697 West End Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10025

697 West End Avenue is a 99-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1929, managed by Argo Real Estate, LLC. The City has 15 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.15 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 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
99
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.

4.2/5Better 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.

Complaints are down from 11 to 7 year on year.

7tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 11 the year before

15open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Doors, windows and locks4
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Plumbing2
  • Other repairs2

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 3,157 apartments.

open violations
491open violations
immediately hazardous
46immediately hazardous
311 complaints
112311 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 697 West End Avenue yet.

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