946 1st Avenue
Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022
946 1st Avenue is a 24-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1900, managed by El-kam Realty Company. The City has 50 open housing-code violations on file for it, 14 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 El-kam Realty Company
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- Units
- 24
- Year built
- 1900
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
Complaints are down from 19 to 3 year on year.
3tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 19 the year before
50open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 14
- Hazardous
- 23
- Non-hazardous
- 13
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings19
- Doors, windows and locks9
- Heat or hot water8
- Smoke and CO alarms4
- Other repairs3
- Pests2
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
El-kam Realty Company manages 4 other buildings we cover, holding 30 apartments.
- open violations
- 79open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 29immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 2311 complaints
- per apartment
- 2.6per 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 946 1st Avenue yet.
Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.
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