401 East 78th Street
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075
401 East 78th Street is an 8-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1910, managed by Rowdy Management. The City has 15 open housing-code violations on file for it, 10 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.9 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 4 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 22 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 Rowdy Management
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- Units
- 8
- Year built
- 1910
- 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.
4tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 22 days · neighborhood median is 4
15open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.9 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 10
- Hazardous
- 5
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Heat or hot water6
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Pests2
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Electrical1
- Rubbish and cleanliness1
Housing Court
The City 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Rowdy Management manages 15 other buildings we cover, holding 205 apartments.
- open violations
- 150open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 37immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 70311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 401 East 78th Street yet.
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