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228 East 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028

228 East 81st Street is a 28-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1930, managed by Livingston Management Services LLC. The City has 17 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.61 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 66 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.

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Units
28
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.

2.7/5About 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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

66tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

17open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
6
Hazardous
9
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould6
  • Doors, windows and locks4
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Electrical2
  • Pests1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Livingston Management Services LLC manages 111 other buildings we cover, holding 2,434 apartments.

open violations
1,194open violations
immediately hazardous
288immediately hazardous
311 complaints
841311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.5per 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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