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1252 Lexington Avenue

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10028

1252 Lexington Avenue is a 6-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1910, managed by Fairbank Properties LLC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.8 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Fairbank Properties LLC

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Units
6
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.

1.9/5Worse 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

7tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 9 the year before

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms5
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Other repairs2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Fairbank Properties LLC manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 138 apartments.

open violations
91open violations
immediately hazardous
22immediately hazardous
311 complaints
2311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per 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

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