686 3rd Avenue
Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10017
686 3rd Avenue is a 28-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1930. The City has 79 open housing-code violations on file for it, 15 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.8 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.
The City has this building registered to a person rather than a company, and we do not publish individual names.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
- 28
- Year built
- 1930
- Neighborhood
- East Midtown-Turtle 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
79open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.8 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 15
- Hazardous
- 51
- Non-hazardous
- 13
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings35
- Doors, windows and locks11
- Other repairs9
- Electrical6
- Plumbing5
- Heat or hot water3
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
What tenants say
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