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161 East 89th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10128

161 East 89th Street is a 14-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1920, managed by Pearl Road Management CORP. The City has 6 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.43 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 Pearl Road Management CORP.

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Units
14
Year built
1920
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.

3.4/5About average for the areaScored 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

6open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Pearl Road Management CORP manages 17 other buildings we cover, holding 217 apartments.

open violations
255open violations
immediately hazardous
32immediately hazardous
311 complaints
29311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.2per 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

Nobody has written about 161 East 89th Street yet.

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