1398 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10021
Also listed by the City as 305 East 72nd Street
1398 2nd Avenue is a 177-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1961, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 49 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.28 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Akam Associates, INC.
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- Units
- 177
- Year built
- 1961
- 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.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
49open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 4
- Hazardous
- 28
- Non-hazardous
- 17
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings17
- Smoke and CO alarms8
- Doors, windows and locks6
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Other repairs5
- Electrical3
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Akam Associates, INC manages 257 other buildings we cover, holding 34,845 apartments.
- open violations
- 2,884open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 346immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 433311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per 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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