1201 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10065
1201 2nd Avenue is a 532-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1963, managed by Carlyle Construction CORP. The City has 83 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.16 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 137 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 Carlyle Construction CORP
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- Units
- 532
- Year built
- 1963
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
- 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.
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.
137tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 27 the year before
83open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 6
- Hazardous
- 53
- Non-hazardous
- 24
What the open repairs are about
- Leaks, damp or mould27
- Stairs, floors and ceilings26
- Doors, windows and locks15
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Other repairs4
- Paint and plaster3
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 6 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Carlyle Construction CORP manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 1,451 apartments.
- open violations
- 53open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 2immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 37311 complaints
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
Nobody has written about 1201 2nd Avenue yet.
Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.
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