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444 2nd Avenue

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10010

444 2nd Avenue is a 404-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1970, managed by Phipps Houses Services, INC. The City has 22 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.05 per apartment, somewhat above the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 32 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 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 Phipps Houses Services, INC

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Units
404
Year built
1970
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.

4.5/5Little on recordScored 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 4 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

32tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before

22open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
7
Hazardous
11
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould8
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Heat or hot water4
  • Doors, windows and locks3
  • Other repairs2
  • 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Phipps Houses Services, INC manages 11 other buildings we cover, holding 562 apartments.

open violations
126open violations
immediately hazardous
30immediately hazardous
311 complaints
82311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 444 2nd Avenue yet.

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