Top-rated NYC apartment buildings, by neighborhood
Rent boards and broker sites tell you what a building looks like in photos. They don't tell you whether the super shows up, whether the boiler holds through January, whether the lease renewal will spike, or whether the noise from upstairs makes the apartment unlivable on weeknights. Openigloo's tenant reviews do. Each neighborhood roundup below pulls the ten highest-rated buildings in that area, ranked by real reviews left by people who lived there. We exclude buildings with too few reviews to be meaningful, so a single happy tenant can't tip the scale. The buildings that rise to the top are the ones renters consistently say good things about — well-run, responsive management, the basics that should be table stakes but rarely are. Use these lists as your shortlist before touring. A building that shows up on this page in your target neighborhood is the kind of place worth chasing a listing in.
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