685 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · Murray Hill-Kips Bay, NY 10016
685 2nd Avenue is a 47-apartment building in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, built in 1942, managed by Abc Realty. The City has 21 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.45 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Abc Realty
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- Units
- 47
- Year built
- 1942
- 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.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
21open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.4 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 1
- Hazardous
- 11
- Non-hazardous
- 9
What the open repairs are about
- Doors, windows and locks9
- Stairs, floors and ceilings8
- Leaks, damp or mould2
- Heat or hot water1
- Plumbing1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Abc Realty manages 56 other buildings we cover, holding 1,226 apartments.
- open violations
- 414open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 112immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 71311 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 685 2nd Avenue yet.
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