529 East 85 Street,
Manhattan, NY 10028

29 Units

Built in 1920

6 Floors

Rent Stabilized Units: Yes
Pet Friendly: Yes
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Renters Recommendations

-- of renters recommend this building

-- of renters approve of this owner

Reviews (9)

Over 1 year ago
Has gone downhill
Former Tenant
Pros:
Huge beautiful prewar style apartments
Used to be an amazing place to live
Cons:
-Building under new ownership and the new owner has clearly run out of funds to maintain this building
-Horribly maintained- extremely rude management company. They either unresponsive or does not help
-constant leaks from mis-handled construction and patchy repairs
-crumbling walls due to haphazard repairs after a 2017 fire that displaced tenants
-repairs take almost a year to be addressed
-things break daily
-super is unable to do repairs because of owner doesn't want to pay
-mice, cockroaches, bed bug infestation
-ongoing construction that doesn't end because contractors keep changing
-filthy halls and common spaces
-High percentage rent raises
-constant attempt to destabilize stabilized or rent controlled units- makes those tenants as uncomfortable as possible
-Owner purposely not renting out stabilized units and using them as storage and keeping one for himself that is not his primary residence
-Tenants move out because of mismanagement and the state of the building and the units sit vacant for years.
Advice to owner:
Sell to someone better equipped to handle the property. This building used to be a gem on the Upper East Side and now is a disgusting place to live.
Over 1 year ago
Very dirty building
Former Tenant
Pros:
Huge apartments with ton of natural light
Cons:
Very dirty building, old apartment floors, unresponsive managment.
Advice to owner:
Actually supervise what is happening in the building. No one cleans it.

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Rents and Deposits

-- of renters received their security deposits back
It dummy text been reported if this building dummy electronic rent payments.
Open Violations
Only open violations from the last 10 years.
The average number of violations per unit at 529 East 85 Street is worse than the city .
BUILDING AVERAGE:
0 violations per unit
NEW YORK CITY AVERAGE:
Less than 0.01 violation per unit
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Non-hazardous
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class A
i.e. no peephole on a door, or no street # on the building, unlawful keeping of animals
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Hazardous
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class B
i.e. smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting, no lighting for stairways
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Immediately hazardous
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class C
i.e. rodents, pest, mold, inadequate heat or hot water, defective building parts
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Missing information/filings
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class I
Missing or non-compliant with administrative information orders or filings
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Property Owners and Associates
M
Meadway Estates Inc
3(9)
Corporate Owner
2 Properties51 Units
Litigation History: No
Evictions: 0
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Aj Clarke Re. Corp
3(9)
Agent
1 Property29 Units
Litigation History: No
Evictions: 0
M
Magdalena Kosz
3(9)
Head Officer
2 Properties51 Units
Litigation History: No
Evictions: 0
G
Gene Palumbo
3.3(271)
Head Officer
216 Properties4826 Units
Litigation History: Yes
Evictions: 27

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