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Neighborhood · Manhattan

East Midtown & Turtle Bay

East Midtown and Turtle Bay cover Manhattan's East Side from about 42nd Street to 59th Street, from around Park Avenue east to the East River. The United Nations campus is a separate tabulation area next door. Housing includes 1860s rowhouses such as the twenty homes of the Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District, plus high-rise offices and apartment towers such as 860–870 United Nations Plaza. Grand Central Terminal serves Metro-North, with the 4, 5, 6, 7 and shuttle at the Grand Central–42nd Street station; the E and F stop at Lexington Avenue/53rd Street, linked to the 6 at 51st Street. Greenacre Park, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza and the Chrysler Building are here.

East Midtown & Turtle Bay has 5,685 open HPD housing violations, 912 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,033 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 25th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
5,685
912 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,033
280 Class C · 26th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C912 · 16%Class B2,801 · 49%Class A1,972 · 35%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous280
  • Class B · hazardous325
  • Class A · non-hazardous314

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • Grand Central: 4, 5, 6, 7 and shuttle, plus Metro-North
  • E and F at Lexington Avenue/53rd Street; 6 at 51st Street
  • Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District: twenty rowhouses on 48th and 49th Streets, designated 1966
  • Greenacre Park, Peter Detmold Park and Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
  • Part of Manhattan Community District 6

Before you rent or buy here

Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Station placement checked by point-in-polygon of MTA Subway Stations coordinates (daytime routes) against the 2020 NTA polygon; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch and tested against the same polygons. Inside MN0604: Grand Central-42 St (4 5 6), 51 St (6), Lexington Av/53 St. Corrected the 53rd Street routes to E and F (MTA dataset, current daytime service); the old text said '6 and E at Lexington/51st'. Grand Central Terminal, Chrysler Building, 860 UN Plaza, Turtle Bay Gardens (230 E 49th), Greenacre Park (217 E 51st), Peter Detmold Park and Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza geocode inside. Rowhouse count and 1860s date from the historic district article.

Sources

  1. Turtle Bay, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Open NY) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.