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155 East 38th Street

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016

155 East 38th Street is a 174-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1960, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 21 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.12 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 34 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 22 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 Akam Associates, INC.

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Units
174
Year built
1960
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.

34tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 9 the year before

Typically closed in 22 days · neighborhood median is 5

21open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
9
Non-hazardous
7

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings14
  • Leaks, damp or mould7
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Pests4
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Heat or hot water2

Housing Court

The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

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 34,848 apartments.

open violations
2,905open violations
immediately hazardous
346immediately hazardous
311 complaints
449311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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 155 East 38th Street yet.

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