1266 1st Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10065
1266 1st Avenue is a 31-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1910, managed by Ek Realty LLC. The City has 14 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.45 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 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 Ek Realty LLC
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- Units
- 31
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
3tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
14open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 2
- Hazardous
- 10
- Non-hazardous
- 2
What the open repairs are about
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Doors, windows and locks2
- Leaks, damp or mould2
- Stairs, floors and ceilings2
- Paint and plaster1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Ek Realty LLC manages 12 other buildings we cover, holding 196 apartments.
- open violations
- 142open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 37immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 56311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
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