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1288 1st Avenue

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10021

Also listed by the City as 1286 1st Avenue

1288 1st Avenue is a 52-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1900, managed by HSC Management CORP. The City has 45 open housing-code violations on file for it, 22 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.87 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 34 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 HSC Management CORP.

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Units
52
Year built
1900
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.

2.1/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

Typically closed in 34 days · neighborhood median is 4

45open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.9 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
22
Hazardous
18
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings17
  • Doors, windows and locks12
  • Pests8
  • Other repairs2
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Heat or hot water2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

HSC Management CORP manages 44 other buildings we cover, holding 674 apartments.

open violations
780open violations
immediately hazardous
102immediately hazardous
311 complaints
33311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.2per 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.)

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