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118 East 31st Street

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016

118 East 31st Street is an 8-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1910, managed by Brighton Management. The City has 17 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 30 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 Brighton Management

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Units
8
Year built
1910
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.

1.8/5Worse 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

1 repair has been cleared since our last check.

30tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 14 the year before

17open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
13
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings9
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Electrical1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Brighton Management manages 28 other buildings we cover, holding 576 apartments.

open violations
166open violations
immediately hazardous
47immediately hazardous
311 complaints
164311 complaints

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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 118 East 31st Street yet.

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