226 East 53rd Street
Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022
226 East 53rd Street is a 17-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1900, managed by Empire Management. The City has 32 open housing-code violations on file for it, 9 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.9 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 6 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 Empire Management
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- Units
- 17
- Year built
- 1900
- Neighborhood
- East Midtown-Turtle Bay
- 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 4-day neighborhood median.
6tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before
32open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.9 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 9
- Hazardous
- 15
- Non-hazardous
- 8
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings6
- Smoke and CO alarms6
- Heat or hot water5
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Other repairs4
- Doors, windows and locks4
Housing Court
The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.
A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Empire Management manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 174 apartments.
- open violations
- 195open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 42immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 27311 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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Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.
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