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240 East 79th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075

240 East 79th Street is a 64-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1929, managed by Century Management Services INC. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.14 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 29 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 Century Management Services INC

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Units
64
Year built
1929
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.

3.9/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 29 days · neighborhood median is 4

9open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
7
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Doors, windows and locks3

Housing Court

Tenants 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Century Management Services INC manages 84 other buildings we cover, holding 11,632 apartments.

open violations
675open violations
immediately hazardous
79immediately hazardous
311 complaints
115311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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 240 East 79th Street yet.

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