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839 West End Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, NY 10025

839 West End Avenue is a 43-apartment building in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, built in 1902, managed by Maxwell-kates INC. The City has 76 open housing-code violations on file for it, 14 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.8 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

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Units
43
Year built
1902
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.

2.2/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 1 to 0 year on year.

0tenant complaints

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

76open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
14
Hazardous
32
Non-hazardous
30

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings40
  • Doors, windows and locks18
  • Paint and plaster4
  • Electrical4
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Other repairs3

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Maxwell-kates INC manages 151 other buildings we cover, holding 10,648 apartments.

open violations
1,744open violations
immediately hazardous
228immediately hazardous
311 complaints
176311 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

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