1079 1st Avenue
Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022
1079 1st Avenue is a 20-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1920, managed by TZM Realty Properties. The City has 14 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.70 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 8 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 99 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 TZM Realty Properties
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- Units
- 20
- Year built
- 1920
- Neighborhood
- East Midtown-Turtle Bay
- 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.
8tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before
Typically closed in 99 days · neighborhood median is 4
14open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.7 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 2
- Hazardous
- 4
- Non-hazardous
- 8
What the open repairs are about
- Other repairs4
- Paint and plaster2
- Doors, windows and locks2
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Stairs, floors and ceilings2
- Electrical1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
TZM Realty Properties manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 103 apartments.
- open violations
- 67open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 22immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 16311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per apartment
in the past year
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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