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237 East 86th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028

Also listed by the City as 241 East 86th Street

237 East 86th Street is a 106-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1989, managed by Bettina Equities Management LLC. The City has 1 open housing-code violation on file for it, and it is immediately hazardous, about 0.01 per apartment, well below 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 62 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). One tenant has rated it 4.0 out of 5 here.

Managed by Bettina Equities Management LLC

4.0/ 5

Good · Based on 1 review

100%

Would live here again

5.0/ 5

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Rating distribution

  • 5 0
  • 4 1
  • 3 0
  • 2 0
  • 1 0

Category ratings

  • Landlord responsiveness4.0
  • Super responsiveness5.0
  • Repairs5.0
  • Rent & billing3.0
Units
106
Year built
1989
Borough
Manhattan

1 review from tenants

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4.0
Aug 2026Would live here again

I lived here for a few years and had a good time. No complaints. Nice live-in super.

Landlord or management
4/5
Super
5/5
Repairs
5/5
Rent & billing
3/5
Lived here
2–5 years
Rent
$3,000 – $3,999/mo

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.

4.4/5Better than most nearbyScored 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 11 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 11 the year before

Typically closed in 62 days · neighborhood median is 5

1open repair

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Heat or hot water1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Bettina Equities Management LLC manages 41 other buildings we cover, holding 1,627 apartments.

open violations
10open violations
immediately hazardous
4immediately hazardous
311 complaints
63311 complaints

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.)