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Lenox Hill and Roosevelt Island

This area joins the eastern part of the Upper East Side, roughly east of Third Avenue from 59th Street into the upper 70s, with Roosevelt Island in the East River. The mainland side is mostly apartment buildings. Roosevelt Island is about 2 miles long and 147 acres, managed by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation; its housing dates from the 1970s onward, and it is home to the Cornell Tech campus (opened 2017) and Four Freedoms Park at its southern tip. The Q stops at 72nd Street on Second Avenue. Roosevelt Island has a subway station on the 63rd Street line, an aerial tramway opened in 1976 and NYC Ferry service. John Jay Park and Andrew Haswell Green Park are on the mainland side.

Lenox Hill and Roosevelt Island has 9,367 open HPD housing violations, 1,880 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,278 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 17th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
9,367
1,880 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,278
710 Class C · 15th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,880 · 20%Class B4,792 · 51%Class A2,695 · 29%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 hazardous710
  • Class B · hazardous802
  • Class A · non-hazardous591

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

Good to know

  • Roosevelt Island Tramway opened in 1976
  • Roosevelt Island station: M on weekdays during the day, F nights and weekends
  • Q train stop at 72nd Street on the Second Avenue line
  • Cornell Tech campus opened on Roosevelt Island in 2017

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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

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Roosevelt Island station and 72 St (Q) fall inside the polygon; John Jay Park and Andrew Haswell Green Park points fall inside. Size (about 2 miles, 147 acres), RIOC, tram (May 1976), Cornell Tech (2017), Four Freedoms Park and housing from 1974 onward from Wikipedia. Station service since December 8, 2025 (M weekdays daytime; F nights and weekends) from Wikipedia; NYC Ferry Roosevelt Island stop confirmed on the NYC Ferry Astoria route page.

Sources

  1. Roosevelt Island (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Roosevelt Island station (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Astoria route · NYC Ferry (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (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.