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966 1st Avenue

Manhattan · East Midtown-Turtle Bay, NY 10022

966 1st Avenue is a 189-apartment building in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, built in 1958, managed by Century Management Services INC. The City has 20 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.11 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 5 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 Century Management Services INC

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Units
189
Year built
1958
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.

4.4/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

5tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

20open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
15
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms8
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings8
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Century Management Services INC manages 84 other buildings we cover, holding 11,507 apartments.

open violations
669open violations
immediately hazardous
77immediately hazardous
311 complaints
111311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per apartment

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

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