244 East 79th Street
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075
Also listed by the City as 242 East 79th Street
244 East 79th Street is a 24-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1930, managed by Emmes Asset Management Company. The City has 8 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.33 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 10 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 58 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 Emmes Asset Management Company
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- Units
- 24
- Year built
- 1930
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
- 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.
10tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 58 days · neighborhood median is 4
8open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 5
- Hazardous
- 3
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Doors, windows and locks5
- Pests1
- Other repairs1
- Heat or hot water1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Emmes Asset Management Company manages 8 other buildings we cover, holding 50 apartments.
- open violations
- 18open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 3immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 22311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.4per 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
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