1781 1st Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10128
1781 1st Avenue is a 367-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1980, managed by Douglas Elliman Property Management. The City has 64 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.17 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 42 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 Douglas Elliman Property Management
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- Units
- 367
- Year built
- 1980
- 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.
Complaints are down from 9 to 3 year on year.
3tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 9 the year before
Typically closed in 42 days · neighborhood median is 5
64open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 2
- Hazardous
- 46
- Non-hazardous
- 16
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings32
- Doors, windows and locks9
- Leaks, damp or mould7
- Smoke and CO alarms6
- Electrical4
- Plumbing3
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Douglas Elliman Property Management manages 266 other buildings we cover, holding 24,375 apartments.
- open violations
- 1,700open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 165immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 301311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per 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 28 September 2026.)
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