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440 East 79th Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, NY 10075

440 East 79th Street is a 219-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1956, managed by Century Management Services INC. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.07 per apartment, about double 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 Century Management Services INC

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Units
219
Year built
1956
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.

4.4/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 1 to 0 year on year.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
7
Non-hazardous
8

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Smoke and CO alarms5
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Pests2
  • Plumbing1
  • Heat or hot water1

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Century Management Services INC manages 84 other buildings we cover, holding 11,477 apartments.

open violations
668open violations
immediately hazardous
79immediately hazardous
311 complaints
116311 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 440 East 79th Street yet.

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