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420 East 86th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028

420 East 86th Street is a 48-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1935, managed by Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC. The City has 72 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.5 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 7 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 Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC

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Units
48
Year built
1935
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.

2.3/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 7 days · neighborhood median is 5

72open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
40
Non-hazardous
27

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings30
  • Doors, windows and locks11
  • Smoke and CO alarms10
  • Leaks, damp or mould9
  • Electrical7
  • Other repairs4

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Vanderbilt NYC Apt INC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 334 apartments.

open violations
137open violations
immediately hazardous
23immediately hazardous
311 complaints
502311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.4per 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 420 East 86th Street yet.

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