685 1st Avenue
Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016
Also listed by the City as 685 First Avenue
685 1st Avenue is a 556-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 2016. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.03 per apartment, below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 16 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 17 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
The City has this building registered to a person rather than a company, and we do not publish individual names.
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- Units
- 556
- Year built
- 2016
- 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.
16tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before
Typically closed in 17 days · neighborhood median is 5
16open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 0
- Non-hazardous
- 16
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings8
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Leaks, damp or mould2
- Pests2
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
What tenants say
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