680 8th Avenue
Manhattan · Midtown-Times Square, NY 10036
680 8th Avenue is a 652-apartment building in Midtown-Times Square, built in 1920, managed by Breaking Ground Management. The City has 69 open housing-code violations on file for it, 42 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.11 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 293 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 9 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 Breaking Ground Management
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- Units
- 652
- Year built
- 1920
- Neighborhood
- Midtown-Times Square
- 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.
293tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 98 the year before
Typically closed in 9 days · neighborhood median is 4
69open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 42
- Hazardous
- 13
- Non-hazardous
- 14
What the open repairs are about
- Pests38
- Stairs, floors and ceilings14
- Leaks, damp or mould11
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Doors, windows and locks2
- Other repairs1
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 9 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Breaking Ground Management manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 1,049 apartments.
- open violations
- 300open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 76immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 626311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.3per 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 680 8th Avenue yet.
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