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161 East 88th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10128

161 East 88th Street is a 42-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1937, managed by Esra Management LLC. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.12 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 Esra Management LLC

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Units
42
Year built
1937
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.

3.9/5Better 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

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings1
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Pests1
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Esra Management LLC manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 86 apartments.

open violations
244open violations
immediately hazardous
40immediately hazardous
311 complaints
19311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
2.8per 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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