420 West 42 Street,
Manhattan, NY 10036
Building Open Data
262 Units
Built in 2000
40 Floors
1 Year Bedbug History: No
Landlords in NYC are required to file an annual bedbug report with the city and state whether the building has had a bedbug infestation in the past year. We found no recent bedbug reports from these city filings.
Litigation History: No
Litigation history is pulled from NYC housing court records. There are no recorded housing litigations associated with this property from the past 10 years. This information does not include non-housing court cases, such as small-claims cases
Evictions: 2
Rent Stabilized Units: No
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Violations
A violation is issued to a building when a city inspector from
NYC's Department of Housing Preservation and Development validates and confirms a complaint made to 311.
The violations listed below are open violations that have yet to be addressed or have not been confirmed
as resolved by the city.
This building has a total of 0 violations which is 0 violations per unit for their entire portfolio.
That is better than the city average, which is 0.59 violations per unit.
Non-hazardous
0Class A
Non-Hazardous violations (i.e. no peephole on a door, or no street # on the building)
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Hazardous
0Class B
Hazardous violations (i.e. smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting)
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Immediately-hazardous
0Class C
Immediately Hazardous (i.e. rodents, inadequate heat or hot water)
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Approval DateDescriptionCurrent Status
There is no record of violation for class A
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Building Ratings
Water Pressure
Water Pressure: 5
Cleanliness
Cleanliness: 3
Pest Control
Pest Control: 2
Heat
Heat: 5
Noise Levels
Noise Levels: 4
Owner Responsiveness
Owner Responsiveness: 5
Neighbors
Neighbors: 5
Garbage Management
Garbage Management: 5
Renter Recommendations
60% of renters recommend this building
60% of renters approve of this owner
Rents and Deposits
95% of renters received their security deposits back
It HAS NOT been reported if this building accepts electronic rent payments.
Reviews
4.75 stars
Good place to live! But elevatoes always broken
Former Tenant
Pros:
Nice building. Location isn’t great right next ...
Cons:
Elevators always broken! This happened 5 times!
Advice to owner:
Fix elevators
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3.75 stars
Building is ok, but could be better taken care of
Former Tenant
Pros:
Building is overall good, amenities are good as...
Cons:
- they should clean the windows from the outsid...
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3.5 stars
Do Not Live Here: Infested with Roaches
Former Tenant
Pros:
9th avenue itself has lots of bars/restaurants,...
Cons:
This building is infested with roaches, even on...
Advice to owner:
The building needs to be completely fumigated, ...
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3.25 stars
better options out there
Former Tenant
Pros:
front desk staff is friendly
Cons:
bldg mngmnt doesnt resolve issues or addres com...
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4.125 stars
great place in busy time square midtown
Former Tenant
Pros:
the building staff are attentive and do their b...
Cons:
There is noise at all times of the day.
Advice to owner:
be more lax with the COVID restrictions, keep t...
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4 stars
Convenient location for a first apartment
Former Tenant
Pros:
- location is convenient
- building staff are nice
Cons:
- surrounding streets can get a bit sketchy at ...
Advice to owner:
renovate the units and improve the gym
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4.625 stars
Pretty good, ruthless landlords
Former Tenant
Pros:
High rise with great views of downtown and Huds...
Cons:
The rental agents for Brodsky are ruthless. The...
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3 stars
Great but smelly
Former Tenant
Pros:
Great location same block as subway
Cons:
Smell of pee in front of building
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4.625 stars
first time renter
Former Tenant
Pros:
the doormen are so kind and very helpful! there...
Cons:
in the 9th month of my lease i started having b...
Advice to owner:
routine pest control for all unprompted to prev...
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3.75 stars
Overall a fine building
Former Tenant
Pros:
-clean elevator building
-nice doorman
Cons:
Noise from port authority does travel
Advice to owner:
Report
4.25 stars
Maintenance will try to extort you during walk through
Former Tenant
Pros:
Safe building, doormen don’t allow anyone unkno...
Cons:
Maintenance and doormen will never let you brin...
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4.375 stars
Good building and management
Former Tenant
Pros:
Great views, management fixes problems with the...
Cons:
Surrounding area is not the safest, especially ...
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2.25 stars
Wouldn’t recommend
Former Tenant
Pros:
The doormen were nice once you get to know them...
Cons:
Pretty much everything. Elevators always broken...
Advice to owner:
Fix all of the above. Especially the elevators ...
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2.875 stars
Overall nice building but bad elevator management
Former Tenant
Pros:
It’s good location and reasonable rent.
Cons:
Management is very bad at managing elevators. T...
Advice to owner:
Please give clear updates when the elevator is ...
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4 stars
Great building, central
Former Tenant
Pros:
Big apartments, open views, lots of light, frie...
Cons:
Small gym, noisy , electric bill is too high
Advice to owner:
Fix the elevators!
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