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344 East 28th Street

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016

Also listed by the City as 463 1st Avenue

344 East 28th Street is a 225-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1970, managed by Wavecrest MGMT Group. The City has 4 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.02 per apartment, below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 60 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 11 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 Wavecrest MGMT Group

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Units
225
Year built
1970
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.

4.3/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

60tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 50 the year before

Typically closed in 11 days · neighborhood median is 5

4open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Paint and plaster1
  • Electrical1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 6 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Wavecrest MGMT Group manages 13 other buildings we cover, holding 3,159 apartments.

open violations
129open violations
immediately hazardous
32immediately hazardous
311 complaints
237311 complaints

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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 344 East 28th Street yet.

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