1209 1st Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10065
Also listed by the City as 1205 1st Avenue
1209 1st Avenue is a 48-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1910, managed by 1205-1215 First Ave Annex, LLC. The City has 244 open housing-code violations on file for it, 38 of them immediately hazardous, about 5.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by 1205-1215 First Ave Annex, LLC
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- Units
- 48
- Year built
- 1910
- 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.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
244open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 5.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 38
- Hazardous
- 166
- Non-hazardous
- 40
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings91
- Other repairs34
- Doors, windows and locks33
- Pests26
- Smoke and CO alarms22
- Leaks, damp or mould15
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 1209 1st 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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