218 East 79th Street
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075
218 East 79th Street is a 2-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1910, managed by Aras Properties, INC. The City has 39 open housing-code violations on file for it, 9 of them immediately hazardous, about 19.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 5 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 Aras Properties, INC.
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- Units
- 2
- Year built
- 1910
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
- 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.
2tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 4
39open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 19.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 9
- Hazardous
- 21
- Non-hazardous
- 9
What the open repairs are about
- Electrical8
- Doors, windows and locks6
- Stairs, floors and ceilings5
- Other repairs5
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Leaks, damp or mould3
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Aras Properties, INC manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 101 apartments.
- open violations
- 26open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 11immediately hazardous
- 311 complaint
- 1311 complaint
- per apartment
- 0.3per 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.)
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