Rate My LandlordAbout

34 East 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10028

34 East 81st Street is a 10-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1921, managed by Metropolitan Property Services INC. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.50 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 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 Metropolitan Property Services INC

Be the first to review this building

Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? No public record answers that.

Write the first review

About a minute, no account, stays anonymous.

Units
10
Year built
1921
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.

3.4/5About 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

3 repairs have been cleared since our last check.

7tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Pests1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Metropolitan Property Services INC manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 227 apartments.

open violations
151open violations
immediately hazardous
28immediately hazardous
311 complaints
22311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 34 East 81st Street yet.

Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.

Be the first to review

About a minute, no account, stays anonymous.

Also on East 81st Street

Every building on East 81st Street →

Also managed by Metropolitan Property Services INC

Their whole portfolio →