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529 East 85 Street
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529 East 85 Street,
Manhattan, NY 10028

29 Units

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Built in 1920

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6 Floors

2.9(8)
Rent Stabilized Units: Yes
Good Cause Eviction: Yes
Evictions: 1
Litigation History: Yes
1 Year Bedbug History: No
Pet Friendly: Yes
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    -- of renters approve of this owner
    Review Summary for 529 East 85 Street
    Summarized from anonymous rental reviews on openigloo.
    Recent reviews for 529 East 85 Street reflect a mixed but predominantly critical tenant experience. While the building offers spacious, charming prewar apartments with great natural light and some pleasant neighbors, persistent maintenance issues detract significantly. Tenants report poor cleanliness, frequent pest infestations (mice, cockroaches, bedbugs), unreliable heating, and noisy, prolonged construction without adequate notice. Management and owner responsiveness are often slow or unhelpful, with complaints about unaddressed repairs, elevator outages, and improper handling of rent-stabilized units. Despite these drawbacks, some tenants value the attentive super, quiet apartments, good water pressure, and affordable rent compared to other Manhattan options. Improvements in building maintenance and pest control would greatly enhance tenant satisfaction.

    Reviews (8)

    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.
    Data last updated 3 days ago.
    The average number of violations per unit at 529 East 85 Street is better than the city.
    BUILDING AVERAGE:
    0.2 violations per unit
    NEW YORK CITY AVERAGE:
    0.81 violation per unit
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    Non-hazardous
    1
    class A
    i.e. no peephole on a door, or no street # on the building, unlawful keeping of animals
    MOST RECENT:
    Nov 08, 2025: § 27-2005 adm code properly repair with similar material the broken or defective wooden door in the 2nd room from north located at apt 1d , 1st story, 1st apartment from west at north
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    Hazardous
    2
    class B
    i.e. smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting, no lighting for stairways
    MOST RECENT:
    Nov 08, 2025: § 27-2026, 2027 hmc: properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at ceiling in the foyer located at apt 1d , 1st story, 1st apartment from west at north
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    Immediately hazardous
    3
    class C
    i.e. rodents, pest, mold, inadequate heat or hot water, defective building parts
    MOST RECENT:
    Jun 30, 2025: § 27-2005, 27-2007, 27-2041.1 hmc, §238, § 309; § 107 (2) ( c) mdl and 28 rcny §25-171: replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at door leading to west yard at public hall, 1st story
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    Missing information/filings
    0
    class I
    Missing or non-compliant with administrative information orders or filings
    MOST RECENT:
    No violation found...
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    Property Owners and Associates
    E
    Elvin Azzordi
    2.9(8)
    Site Manager•
    1 Property•29 Units
    Litigation History: Yes
    Evictions: 1
    J
    Jacob Eisenstein
    2.9(8)
    Agent•
    1 Property•29 Units
    Litigation History: Yes
    Evictions: 1
    E
    529 East 85TH Street Associates LLC
    2.9(8)
    Corporate Owner•
    1 Property•29 Units
    Litigation History: Yes
    Evictions: 1
    K
    Kevin Milgraum
    2.9(8)
    Head Officer•
    1 Property•29 Units
    Litigation History: Yes
    Evictions: 1

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