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Neighborhood · Manhattan

Upper East Side and Carnegie Hill

This part of the Upper East Side runs from 59th Street north to 96th Street, between Fifth Avenue along Central Park and roughly Third Avenue. It includes Carnegie Hill in the 80s and 90s and the area around Park and Madison Avenues to the south. Housing is mainly large apartment buildings on Fifth and Park Avenues, with brownstones and townhouses on the side streets; much of it is inside landmark districts such as the Carnegie Hill Historic District (1974, expanded 1993). Museum Mile institutions here include the Guggenheim, the Cooper Hewitt and the Jewish Museum. The 4, 5 and 6 trains run under Lexington Avenue with stops at 59th, 68th, 77th, 86th and 96th Streets.

Upper East Side and Carnegie Hill has 9,162 open HPD housing violations, 1,368 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,410 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 19th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
9,162
1,368 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,410
227 Class C · 28th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,368 · 15%Class B4,031 · 44%Class A3,763 · 41%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 hazardous227
  • Class B · hazardous349
  • Class A · non-hazardous537

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

Good to know

  • Lexington Avenue line stations at 59th, 68th–Hunter College, 77th, 86th and 96th Streets
  • Carnegie Hill Historic District designated July 23, 1974
  • Guggenheim Museum opened on Fifth Avenue in 1959
  • Central Park, 840 acres, lines its western edge

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). Lexington Avenue stations at 59th, 68th, 77th, 86th and 96th Streets all fall inside the polygon; Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt and Jewish Museum points also fall inside. Historic district dates (July 23, 1974; expanded December 21, 1993), housing and Guggenheim (1959) from Wikipedia (Carnegie Hill). Central Park acreage (840.01) from the Parks Properties dataset, replacing the NYC Parks page.

Sources

  1. Carnegie Hill (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. 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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.