1540 York Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028
1540 York Avenue is a 296-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1962, managed by Maxwell-kates INC. The City has 27 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.09 per apartment, somewhat above 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 49 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 Maxwell-kates INC.
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- Units
- 296
- Year built
- 1962
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Yorkville
- 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.
4tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before
Typically closed in 49 days · neighborhood median is 5
27open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 3
- Hazardous
- 10
- Non-hazardous
- 14
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings18
- Smoke and CO alarms3
- Heat or hot water2
- Leaks, damp or mould2
- Plumbing1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Maxwell-kates INC manages 151 other buildings we cover, holding 10,395 apartments.
- open violations
- 1,793open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 239immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 172311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.2per 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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