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156 East 79th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10075

156 East 79th Street is a 60-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1917, managed by Alexander Wolf & Company, INC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.18 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Alexander Wolf & Company, INC.

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Units
60
Year built
1917
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.

4.0/5Better 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

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
8

What the open repairs are about

  • Other repairs4
  • Pests3
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Alexander Wolf & Company, INC manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 306 apartments.

open violations
63open violations
immediately hazardous
6immediately hazardous
311 complaints
8311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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