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939 1st Avenue

A 15-story building with 137 apartments, built in 1962, in Manhattan, NY 10022.

Addresses on the lot: 344 to 352 East 52nd Street.

HPD records as of October 27, 2026

61open HPD violations11 immediately hazardous
21complaints to HPD, past year5 about heat or hot water
49rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2022
August 2024latest housing court case5 cases on record, all years

939 1st Avenue has 61 open HPD violations, 11 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 21 complaints to HPD in the past year, 5 about heat or hot water. It is registered to Mazal Echad LLC. 49 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2022.

Does 939 1st Avenue have open violations?

Yes: 61 open violations as of October 27, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most11
B, hazardous30 days36
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days14

It has an open class C violation, as 56% of NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments do. More on buildings by size

Of the violations HPD wrote here in the past year, 8 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 21 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to October 27, 2026, 5 of them about heat or hot water. Complaints reach HPD through 311; an inspector may then write a violation.

Among NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments, 72% had at least one complaint to HPD in the past year, and 57% had one about heat or hot water.

Who owns 939 1st Avenue?

939 1st Avenue is registered with HPD to Mazal Echad LLC. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in August 2024. HPD’s record has 5 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

City marshals carried out no evictions here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 7% of residential buildings in 10022 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 939 1st Avenue rent stabilized?

49 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2022, down from 79 in 2018. That’s 49 of the building’s 137 apartments. Whether one apartment is stabilized is in its rent history, which the tenant can ask the state for.

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of October 27, 2026; evictions and rent-stabilized counts as of May 30, 2026; size and age from the city’s PLUTO. All from NYC Open Data. Public records, not legal advice. Tax lot 1-01344-0030.