228 East 52nd Street
Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022
Also listed by the City as 230 East 52nd Street
228 East 52nd Street is a 28-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1900, managed by Direct Management CORP. The City has 37 open housing-code violations on file for it, 11 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.3 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 3 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 Direct Management CORP.
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- Units
- 28
- 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 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
2tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before
37open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 11
- Hazardous
- 25
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Doors, windows and locks13
- Heat or hot water6
- Stairs, floors and ceilings5
- Smoke and CO alarms5
- Other repairs3
- Paint and plaster2
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Direct Management CORP manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 100 apartments.
- open violations
- 104open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 19immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 16311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.0per 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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