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209 East 56th Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

209 East 56th Street is a 105-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1960, managed by The Lovett Company LLC. The City has 12 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.11 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by The Lovett Company LLC

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Units
105
Year built
1960
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.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

12open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
9
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Other repairs2
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Pests1
  • Doors, windows and locks1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

The Lovett Company LLC manages 19 other buildings we cover, holding 1,445 apartments.

open violations
375open violations
immediately hazardous
90immediately hazardous
311 complaints
70311 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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