Midtown Manhattan has 2,897 residential and mixed-use buildings in the 311tracker database. Since January 2024, those buildings have accumulated 6,731 HPD complaints and 1,988 open violations — all searchable by address using 311tracker’s HPD violation lookup. Six buildings have reached Grade F — the highest-risk tier in 311tracker’s violation severity grading system.
The 5 Buildings with the Most Open HPD Violations in Midtown
127 East 28 Street leads Midtown with 107 open violations across just 5 units — 21 violations per unit. Nineteen are Class C (immediately hazardous), requiring landlord correction within 24 hours — though clearing HPD violations in NYC requires official certification, not just repairs. Grade: F.
136 West 28 Street has 104 open violations, including 32 Class C, across 24 units. Tenants filed 276 complaints against this building since 2024. Grade: F.
211 West 28 Street has 96 open violations — 40 of them Class C, the highest Class C count of any Midtown building — across 37 units. Tenants filed 316 complaints here since 2024, the second-highest in Midtown among the most-violated buildings. Grade: F.
10 East 28 Street is Midtown’s largest problem building: 416 units, 96 open violations, and 508 complaints since 2024 — more than any other building in the neighborhood. Grade: F.
154 West 27 Street has 78 open violations (29 Class C) across just 12 units — 6.5 violations per unit. Grade: F.
One More: The Building with the Most Class C Violations
208 West 30 Street ranks sixth on open violations (51), but has the most alarming profile: 39 of its 51 violations — 76.5% — are Class C, immediately hazardous, across just 6 units. That is the highest proportion of immediately hazardous violations of any Midtown building in our database. Grade: F.
A Geographic Cluster
All six Grade F buildings sit within a three-block stretch of 27th–30th Streets on the western and eastern edges of the Flower District. The geographic concentration suggests a landlord accountability problem specific to this corridor, not a Midtown-wide pattern.
What’s Driving Complaints
Heat and hot water failures account for 2,527 of Midtown’s 6,731 complaints since 2024 — 37.5% of the total. Unsanitary conditions follow at 1,158, then plumbing at 924.
DOHMH rodent inspectors recorded 1,441 failures for rat activity across Midtown buildings in the same period.
Check Any Midtown Building
Search any Midtown Manhattan address at 311tracker.com to see its full 311 complaint history, open HPD violations, DOHMH rodent inspection record, and violation grade.
Data Notes
Open violation counts are point-in-time as of June 2026. Complaint counts cover January 2024 – June 2026. Source: NYC Open Data via 311tracker’s D1 database (834,400 buildings, 1.85M complaint records). All figures verified directly from 311tracker’s live database before publication.