1501 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075
1501 2nd Avenue is a 12-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1910, managed by El-kam Realty Company. The City has 65 open housing-code violations on file for it, 22 of them immediately hazardous, about 5.4 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 El-kam Realty Company
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- Units
- 12
- Year built
- 1910
- 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
65open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 5.4 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 22
- Hazardous
- 33
- Non-hazardous
- 10
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings18
- Heat or hot water14
- Doors, windows and locks8
- Smoke and CO alarms8
- Other repairs5
- Electrical5
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
El-kam Realty Company manages 4 other buildings we cover, holding 42 apartments.
- open violations
- 64open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 21immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 5311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.5per 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
Nobody has written about 1501 2nd Avenue yet.
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