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Murray Hill and Kips Bay

This East Side area runs from the mid-20s north to the low 40s, between roughly Park and Lexington Avenues on the west and the East River on the east. Murray Hill has mid-19th-century brownstone rowhouses on its side streets, protected in part by the Murray Hill Historic District (2002, extended 2004), with high-rises along the avenues. Kips Bay has larger complexes, including I. M. Pei's Kips Bay Towers (1963) and Waterside Plaza on a pier over the East River, plus a hospital campus with Bellevue and NYU Langone. The 6 train runs along the western edge with stops at 28th and 33rd Streets, and the 7 stops at Grand Central at the northwest corner. Parks include St. Vartan Park, Bellevue South Park and the Asser Levy Recreation Center.

Murray Hill and Kips Bay has 6,686 open HPD housing violations, 1,108 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,691 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 22nd most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
6,686
1,108 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,691
449 Class C · 22nd in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,108 · 17%Class B3,178 · 48%Class A2,400 · 36%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous449
  • Class B · hazardous568
  • Class A · non-hazardous495

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • Murray Hill Historic District designated in 2002 and extended in 2004
  • Kips Bay Towers has 1,112 apartments and was completed in 1963
  • Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Health are in Kips Bay
  • St. Vartan Park (2.8 acres) spans First to Second Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets

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

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Boundaries corrected: blocks below about 23rd-26th Street belong to the Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town NTAs, and the polygon reaches north past 42nd Street. Removed 23rd St from the 6-train stops (that station is in the Midtown South NTA); added the 7 at Grand Central, which falls inside the polygon. Historic district years and Kips Bay Towers (1,112 units, I. M. Pei, 1963) from Wikipedia; Bellevue/NYU Langone wording matched to Wikipedia; St. Vartan Park acreage (2.759) and streets from the Parks Properties dataset.

Sources

  1. Murray Hill, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Kips Bay, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.