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Neighborhood · Manhattan

Yorkville

Yorkville is the northeastern corner of the Upper East Side, roughly east of Third Avenue from 79th Street north to 96th Street, out to the East River. Its housing mixes older walk-up apartment buildings with later high-rises, including Ruppert Yorkville Towers, an urban renewal project on the site of the old Ruppert brewery between 90th and 92nd Streets. The Henderson Place Historic District is on East End Avenue at 86th Street. The Q train serves the neighborhood at 86th Street on the Second Avenue Subway, which opened in 2017, and the 4, 5 and 6 stop on Lexington Avenue just to the west. Carl Schurz Park on the river holds Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence.

Yorkville has 11,754 open HPD housing violations, 2,359 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,676 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 13th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
11,754
2,359 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,676
800 Class C · 14th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,359 · 20%Class B5,868 · 50%Class A3,527 · 30%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 hazardous800
  • Class B · hazardous961
  • Class A · non-hazardous737

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

Good to know

  • Carl Schurz Park (14.9 acres) contains Gracie Mansion
  • Q train stops at 86th Street on the Second Avenue Subway
  • Ruppert Yorkville Towers occupies the former Ruppert brewery site
  • Mill Rock Park, an island in the East River, is part of the area

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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). 86 St (Q) falls inside; 96 St (Q) sits on the boundary and Lexington Ave stations lie about 150 m west, matching the text. Gracie Mansion, Henderson Place and Mill Rock points fall inside (Mill Rock is a separate island part of the NTA polygon). Ruppert Yorkville Towers (urban renewal on the Ruppert brewery site, 90th-92nd Streets) and Henderson Place from Wikipedia; 'postwar and 1980s' dating of Ruppert removed as unsourced. Carl Schurz Park (14.938 acres) and Mill Rock Park from the Parks Properties dataset; Gracie Mansion history from NYC Parks.

Sources

  1. Yorkville, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Carl Schurz Park history (NYC Parks) · NYC Parks (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)

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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.