311 East 80th Street, Manhattan

A couple of unresolved roof violations and some winter water-supply dropouts on the record.

This pre-war building has a relatively light footprint in the city's files, but there are a few operational kinks to inspect before you sign. Open violations have been sitting unresolved on the roof bulkhead since late 2024. Three things to know:

Open violations have been sitting unresolved since November 9, 2024. Inspectors flagged defective fire-retardant material and peeling paint on the roof bulkhead. They have gone uncertified for over a year and a half, suggesting day-to-day building maintenance might move slowly.

29 restaurant-venting complaints and 5 indoor air quality reports within three blocks. These calls point to commercial kitchen exhaust, chemical vapors, or poor ventilation in the immediate neighborhood. Ground-floor restaurants can easily bleed food smells and heat up through a building's risers to the apartments directly above them.

A freezing day in January triggered building-wide heat and plumbing calls. On January 25, 2026, tenants filed multiple complaints about heat and water supply being cut off to the entire building. It looks like the issue was resolved that day, but it indicates how the aging pre-war pipes react to extreme cold.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 🔊 147 residential noise complaints within three blocks over the last year, with loud music and banging accounting for most of the volume.
• 🐀 32 rodent complaints within three blocks over the last year, with the most recent call on July 16, 2026.
• What it isn't: a neglected building. What it is: a typical pre-war walk-up that handles winter stress with some brief water hiccups, but has some local commercial odors to watch out for. Check the windows and make sure the bulkhead work is actually done.

311 East 80th Street is a 20-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1015430008). This building is associated with Schwartzberg Familylimited Partnership. Brix tracks 2 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1910, this walk-up apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 13 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: 6 complaints
• Plumbing: 4 complaints
• Paint/plaster: 2 complaints
• Unsanitary Condition: 1 complaint

The most recent complaint on this building was filed January 25, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE FIRE RETARDANT MATERIAL AT CEILING, BULKHEAD ROOF
• § 27-2013 ADM CODE PAINT WITH LIGHT COLORED PAINT TO THE SATISFACTION OF THIS DEPARTMENT AT CEILING, BULKHEAD ROOF

The building last changed hands on December 15, 2023, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Concerning (56/100). View the Building Report on Brix.

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