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338 East 53rd Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

338 East 53rd Street is a 20-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1910, managed by Livingston Management Services LLC. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.65 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 8 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Livingston Management Services LLC

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Units
20
Year built
1910
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.

3.0/5About 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.7 per apartment

5 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
5
Non-hazardous
7

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Livingston Management Services LLC manages 111 other buildings we cover, holding 2,442 apartments.

open violations
1,198open violations
immediately hazardous
293immediately hazardous
311 complaints
899311 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

Nobody has written about 338 East 53rd Street yet.

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