688 10th Avenue
Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019
688 10th Avenue is a 12-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1901, managed by Metropolitan Property Services INC. The City has 33 open housing-code violations on file for it, 11 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). Tenants filed 7 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 6 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 Metropolitan Property Services INC
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- Units
- 12
- Year built
- 1901
- Neighborhood
- Hell's Kitchen
- 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.
Complaints are down from 16 to 7 year on year.
7tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 16 the year before
Typically closed in 6 days · neighborhood median is 5
33open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.8 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 11
- Hazardous
- 21
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings10
- Heat or hot water5
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Doors, windows and locks4
- Smoke and CO alarms3
- Electrical3
Housing Court
The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Metropolitan Property Services INC manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 225 apartments.
- open violations
- 126open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 17immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 25311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.6per 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 688 10th Avenue yet.
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