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1603 York Avenue

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028

1603 York Avenue is an 8-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1910, managed by Building Equity Management LLC. The City has 20 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 Building Equity Management LLC

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Units
8
Year built
1910
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.

1.7/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 4 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

20open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
17
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings12
  • Electrical3
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1
  • Other repairs1
  • Plumbing1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Building Equity Management LLC manages 48 other buildings we cover, holding 655 apartments.

open violations
186open violations
immediately hazardous
67immediately hazardous
311 complaints
16311 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 1603 York Avenue yet.

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