1218 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10065
1218 2nd Avenue is a 99-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1996, managed by Maxwell-kates INC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.11 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 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 Maxwell-kates INC.
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- Units
- 99
- Year built
- 1996
- 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 4 days from complaint to close.
Complaints are down from 7 to 1 year on year.
1tenant complaint
Filed with 311 in the past year · 7 the year before
11open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 7
- Hazardous
- 4
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Heat or hot water5
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Stairs, floors and ceilings2
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Pests1
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Maxwell-kates INC manages 151 other buildings we cover, holding 10,592 apartments.
- open violations
- 1,809open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 235immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 162311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.2per 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 1218 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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