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542 East 79th Street

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

542 East 79th Street is a 113-apartment building in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, built in 1913, managed by 78/79 York Associates LLC. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.02 per apartment, below 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 2 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 78/79 York Associates LLC

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Units
113
Year built
1913
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.

5.0/5Little 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

1 repair has been cleared since our last check.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

2open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

78/79 York Associates LLC manages 12 other buildings we cover, holding 1,231 apartments.

open violations
30open violations
immediately hazardous
6immediately hazardous
311 complaints
16311 complaints

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

Nobody has written about 542 East 79th Street yet.

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