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209 East 53rd Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

Also listed by the City as 211 East 53rd Street

209 East 53rd Street is a 146-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1957, managed by Veritas Property Management LLC. The City has 17 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.12 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 30 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 Veritas Property Management LLC

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Units
146
Year built
1957
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.

4.0/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 30 days · neighborhood median is 4

17open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
12
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Paint and plaster2
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Pests1
  • Plumbing1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Veritas Property Management LLC manages 73 other buildings we cover, holding 1,962 apartments.

open violations
682open violations
immediately hazardous
93immediately hazardous
311 complaints
200311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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 28 September 2026.)

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