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227 East 59th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10022

227 East 59th Street is a 25-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1930, managed by Brighton Management. The City has 6 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.24 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 11 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 9 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 Brighton Management

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Units
25
Year built
1930
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.

2.8/5About average for the areaScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 18 to 11 year on year.

11tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 18 the year before

Typically closed in 9 days · neighborhood median is 5

6open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks3
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Electrical1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Brighton Management manages 28 other buildings we cover, holding 559 apartments.

open violations
177open violations
immediately hazardous
48immediately hazardous
311 complaints
183311 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

Nobody has written about 227 East 59th Street yet.

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