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1290 Madison Avenue

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10128

1290 Madison Avenue is a 10-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1898, managed by Choice NY Management. The City has 17 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 1.7 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Choice NY Management

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Units
10
Year built
1898
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.

2.3/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

17open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
15
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Leaks, damp or mould4
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Pests1
  • Paint and plaster1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Choice NY Management manages 70 other buildings we cover, holding 1,743 apartments.

open violations
355open violations
immediately hazardous
92immediately hazardous
311 complaints
267311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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.)

What tenants say

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