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981 Columbus Avenue

Manhattan · Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, NY 10025

981 Columbus Avenue is a 128-apartment building in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, built in 1900, managed by Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.13 per apartment, below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 52 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC.

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Units
128
Year built
1900
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.

3.6/5Better 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 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

1 repair has been cleared since our last check.

52tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 30 the year before

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould5
  • Pests3
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1
  • Smoke and CO alarms1
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Manhattan Valley Management Company, INC manages 32 other buildings we cover, holding 508 apartments.

open violations
667open violations
immediately hazardous
176immediately hazardous
311 complaints
208311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.3per 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

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