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430 East 56th Street

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

430 East 56th Street is an 82-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1955, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 39 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.48 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 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Akam Associates, INC.

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Units
82
Year built
1955
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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 15 to 8 year on year.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 15 the year before

39open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
28
Non-hazardous
6

What the open repairs are about

  • Electrical13
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings12
  • Doors, windows and locks8
  • Plumbing2
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Pests1

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Akam Associates, INC manages 257 other buildings we cover, holding 34,940 apartments.

open violations
2,894open violations
immediately hazardous
345immediately hazardous
311 complaints
425311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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 430 East 56th Street yet.

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