1645 York Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028
1645 York Avenue is a 19-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1920, managed by Refco MGMT CO INC. The City has 31 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 19 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 Refco MGMT CO INC
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- Units
- 19
- Year built
- 1920
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Yorkville
- 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.
3tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 19 days · neighborhood median is 5
31open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.6 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 3
- Hazardous
- 18
- Non-hazardous
- 10
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings10
- Doors, windows and locks7
- Smoke and CO alarms5
- Electrical3
- Paint and plaster2
- Heat or hot water2
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Refco MGMT CO INC manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 75 apartments.
- open violations
- 105open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 15immediately hazardous
- per apartment
- 1.4per 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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