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960 Amsterdam Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, NY 10025

960 Amsterdam Avenue is a 20-apartment building in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, built in 1925, managed by Merchants Properties, INC. The City has 75 open housing-code violations on file for it, 31 of them immediately hazardous, about 3.8 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.

Managed by Merchants Properties, INC.

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Units
20
Year built
1925
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.

1.5/5Among the worst on record 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

75open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 3.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
31
Hazardous
35
Non-hazardous
9

What the open repairs are about

  • Other repairs48
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings20
  • Doors, windows and locks14
  • Leaks, damp or mould8
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Pests2

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Merchants Properties, INC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 98 apartments.

open violations
26open violations
immediately hazardous
4immediately hazardous
311 complaint
1311 complaint

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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 960 Amsterdam Avenue yet.

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