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507 East 81st Street

Manhattan · Upper East Side-Yorkville, NY 10028

507 East 81st Street is a 60-apartment building in Upper East Side-Yorkville, built in 1920, managed by Vanderleigh Properties LLC. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.22 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 12 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.

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Units
60
Year built
1920
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.

3.8/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

12tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 12 the year before

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Other repairs3
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Pests2
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Vanderleigh Properties LLC manages 16 other buildings we cover, holding 511 apartments.

open violations
202open violations
immediately hazardous
46immediately hazardous
311 complaints
101311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.4per 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

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