489 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016
489 2nd Avenue is a 16-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1910, managed by JPJ Realty CORP. The City has 15 open housing-code violations on file for it, 8 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.94 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 12 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 JPJ Realty CORP
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- Units
- 16
- Year built
- 1910
- Neighborhood
- Murray Hill-Kips Bay
- 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 3 to 2 year on year.
2tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before
Typically closed in 12 days · neighborhood median is 4
15open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.9 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 8
- Hazardous
- 5
- Non-hazardous
- 2
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings5
- Other repairs4
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Heat or hot water1
- Pests1
- Plumbing1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
JPJ Realty CORP manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 48 apartments.
- open violations
- 89open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 22immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 12311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.9per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
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