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78 West 85th Street

Manhattan · Upper West Side (Central), NY 10024

Also listed by the City as 76 West 85th Street

78 West 85th Street is a 51-apartment building in Upper West Side (Central), built in 1895, managed by Guardian Asset Management. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.10 per apartment, about double the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Guardian Asset Management

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Units
51
Year built
1895
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.

4.6/5Little on recordScored 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
1
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Electrical1

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Guardian Asset Management manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 29 apartments.

open violations
116open violations
immediately hazardous
12immediately hazardous
311 complaints
7311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
4.0per 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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