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246 East 53rd Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

246 East 53rd Street is a 20-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1900, managed by MD Squared Property Group. The City has 33 open housing-code violations on file for it, 10 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 26 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.

Managed by MD Squared Property Group

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Units
20
Year built
1900
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.

2.0/5Worse than most nearbyScored 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 4-day neighborhood median.

26tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before

33open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
10
Hazardous
12
Non-hazardous
11

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks9
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Paint and plaster2
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Pests1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

MD Squared Property Group manages 91 other buildings we cover, holding 2,167 apartments.

open violations
466open violations
immediately hazardous
88immediately hazardous
311 complaints
167311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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.)

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