1498 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075
1498 2nd Avenue is a 124-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1963, managed by Orsid Realty CORP. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.02 per apartment, close to the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 4 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Orsid Realty CORP
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- Units
- 124
- Year built
- 1963
- 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.
4tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
3open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 3
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings3
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Orsid Realty CORP manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 679 apartments.
- open violations
- 7open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 1immediately hazardous
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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 1498 2nd Avenue yet.
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