1681 1st Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10128
1681 1st Avenue is a 12-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1925, managed by Direct Management CORP. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 16 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 Direct Management CORP.
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- Units
- 12
- Year built
- 1925
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.
16tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 12 the year before
13open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 4
- Hazardous
- 6
- Non-hazardous
- 3
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings7
- Smoke and CO alarms3
- Heat or hot water2
- 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
Direct Management CORP manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 116 apartments.
- open violations
- 128open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 26immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 2311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.1per apartment
in the past year
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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