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589 1st Avenue

Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016

589 1st Avenue is a 12-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1930, managed by MCP Property Management LLC. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.3 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 7 days (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
12
Year built
1930
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.

1.8/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

7tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 8 the year before

Typically closed in 7 days · neighborhood median is 4

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
6
Hazardous
6
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings8
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Pests2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

MCP Property Management LLC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 101 apartments.

open violations
32open violations
immediately hazardous
2immediately hazardous
311 complaints
17311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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

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