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135 East 54th Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

135 East 54th Street is a 145-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1951, managed by Argo Real Estate, LLC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.08 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 20 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 Argo Real Estate, LLC

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Units
145
Year built
1951
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.

4.1/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 11 to 3 year on year.

3tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 11 the year before

Typically closed in 20 days · neighborhood median is 4

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Pests1
  • Other repairs1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Smoke and CO alarms1
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Argo Real Estate, LLC manages 54 other buildings we cover, holding 3,111 apartments.

open violations
495open violations
immediately hazardous
49immediately hazardous
311 complaints
116311 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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