421 East 81st Street
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028
421 East 81st Street is a 20-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1920, managed by Ventura Land CORP. The City has 22 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 1.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Ventura Land CORP
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- Units
- 20
- Year built
- 1920
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Yorkville
- 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.
Complaints are down from 14 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 14 the year before
22open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 15
- Non-hazardous
- 7
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings11
- Doors, windows and locks4
- Smoke and CO alarms3
- Electrical2
- Other repairs2
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Ventura Land CORP manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 142 apartments.
- open violations
- 51open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 6immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 16311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.4per 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
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