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151 East 38th Street

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016

151 East 38th Street is an 11-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1920, managed by Chelsmore Universal INC. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.27 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 Chelsmore Universal INC

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Units
11
Year built
1920
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.

3.7/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

3open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Other repairs2
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Chelsmore Universal INC manages 24 other buildings we cover, holding 739 apartments.

open violations
200open violations
immediately hazardous
44immediately hazardous
311 complaints
57311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 151 East 38th Street yet.

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