240 East 27th Street, Manhattan

The housing record carries 7 open violations with stable management, but local air quality flares and massive helicopter noise define the block.

This high-rise rental operates with stable management and an active city relationship. While day-to-day services are generally responsive, the local block-level records carry distinct noise and air quality patterns. Three things to know:

The housing record carries 7 open violations. None of these 7 open violations are in the immediately hazardous Class C tier, indicating that on-site management is responsive. However, the open violations keep the building on the active enforcement registry.

Over 1,000 helicopter-noise complaints on the immediate block. With the block sitting near waterfront corridors, helicopter noise is a major local factor. There were 1,030 helicopter-noise complaints logged in the three-block corridor over the past year, which is highly elevated compared to typical city neighborhoods. The most recent complaint was filed on July 16, 2026.

Five indoor air quality complaints logged at the building. Tenants have filed 5 indoor air quality complaints, with chemical vapor and odor reports as recently as July 8, 2026. This often points to ventilation system leakage or retail space exhaust migrating through shared risers.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 🛗 10 elevator complaints on the building's record, including an open device complaint on July 9, 2026
• ⛺ 56 encampment calls within three blocks of the building over the past year, with the last seen on June 28, 2026
• 🔊 2,419 residential noise complaints in the three-block corridor, with 2,285 flagged specifically for banging and pounding
• The building itself operates normally, but the surrounding block takes a heavy beating from helicopter flight paths, street-level activity, and structural residential noise.

240 East 27th Street is a 325-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1009070025). This building is associated with Equity Residential Management LLC. Brix tracks 7 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1977, this elevator apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 118 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.

What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:

• Heat/hot Water: 88 complaints
• Unsanitary Condition: 11 complaints
• General: 6 complaints
• Plumbing: 6 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed July 3, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2045(B)(1)(A) HMC, § 12-01, § 12-03 RCNY REPAIR, REPLACE OR PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL SMOKE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH DEPART
• § 27-2045(B)(1)(B) HMC, § 12-06, § 12-07, § 12-09 RCNY REPAIR, REPLACE OR PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACC
• § 27-2031 ADM CODE PROVIDE HOT WATER AT ALL HOT WATER FIXTURES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 27B, 27th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR THE NORTH WALL IN THE 2nd ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 15M,

The building last changed hands on September 30, 2014 for $5,941,469.48, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Concerning (47/100). View the Building Report on Brix.

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