781 5th Avenue
Top insights
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1927) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
About this building
Standing since 1927 inside the Upper East Side Historic District. Individually designated a New York City landmark. The building’s floor space is 25.2 times the size of its lot: 314,509 sq ft of building on a 12,500 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 15, 2026.
Class B
Class C
12 months to May 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
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(311 complaints)
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781 5th Avenue
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- City records show no open HPD violations here — ask what was most recently repaired and how maintenance requests are handled, since a clean record isn’t a guarantee of upkeep.
- We found no DHCR rent-stabilization unit count for this building. That is not the same as the building being market-rate — a registration can be on file with no unit figure, or not have been filed at all. Ask the landlord directly whether the unit is rent-stabilized, and request your own rent history from DHCR.
- City Buildings Department records show an open life-safety condition (e.g. unsafe building / hazardous facade) — what is it, and has it actually been resolved, not just re-filed?
781 5 Avenue sits in Manhattan, ZIP 10022. The closest subway is 5 Av/59 St (N,R,W) (1-minute walk), served by the 4, 5, 6, B, D, E, F, M, N, Q, R, and W lines.
Building Condition
- Apr 12, 2023 "BOROUGH COMMISIONER STOP WORK ORDER APPLICATION #123228042 DUE TO CONTRACTOR WITHDRAWAL"
- Apr 12, 2023 "BOROUGH COMMISIONER STOP WORK ORDER APPLICATION #123228042 DUE TO CONTRACTOR WITHDRAWAL"
- Aug 2, 2022 "FAILURE TO FILE BENCHMARKING REPORT OF ENERGY USE AS PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-309.4"
No HPD lead-paint violations are on record for this building. That means no complaint or inspection was filed — not that the building is lead-free.
Built 1927. Under NYC Local Law 1 (Admin Code §27-2056.5), lead paint is presumed present in common areas and in apartments where a child under 6 resides, in multiple dwellings built before 1960. The presumption stands unless the owner obtained a lead-free or lead-safe exemption from HPD. Those exemption records aren’t published as open data, so we can’t confirm one either way.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- GRAND LARCENY: 38
- PETIT LARCENY: 17
- HARRASSMENT 2: 14
- MISCELLANEOUS PENAL LAW: 6
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 6
- Illegal Parking: 179
- Mobile Food Vendor: 161
- Non-Emergency Police Matter: 145
- Panhandling: 109
- Vendor Enforcement: 72
- 1 E 60TH ST
- 745 5TH AVE
- 745 5 AVENUE
- P.S. 059 Beekman Hill International
- East Side Elementary School, PS 267
- Art and Design High School
- 5 Av/59 St
- 57 St
- Lexington Av/59 St
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- The Grolier Club Of New York
- Public Art Fund, Inc.
- Paley Center For Media
- Young Audiences New York, Inc.
- Morphoses, Ltd.
- Browning School
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
- Astound Broadband Cable Fiber Up to 1,500 Mbps down · 1,500 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable Fiber Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 Mbps up
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Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection (NY, rev. May 2026). Wired broadband only — cable + fiber. DSL, satellite, and fixed-wireless not included. Block-level data; actual availability may vary by building.
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