870 5th Avenue
Manhattan · Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, NY 10065
870 5th Avenue is a 94-apartment building in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, built in 1949, managed by Douglas Elliman Property Management. The City has 168 open housing-code violations on file for it, 11 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.8 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Douglas Elliman Property Management
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- Units
- 94
- Year built
- 1949
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
- 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 12 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 12 the year before
168open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.8 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 11
- Hazardous
- 125
- Non-hazardous
- 32
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings68
- Leaks, damp or mould34
- Electrical26
- Doors, windows and locks15
- Smoke and CO alarms8
- Pests6
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Douglas Elliman Property Management manages 266 other buildings we cover, holding 24,648 apartments.
- open violations
- 1,590open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 156immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 308311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
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