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128 2nd Avenue

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

128 2nd Avenue is a 22-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Smicon Realty Management, LLC. The City has 89 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 4.0 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 9 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Smicon Realty Management, LLC

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Units
22
Year built
1920
Neighborhood
East Village
Borough
Manhattan

This building’s record with the City

Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.

1.6/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

9tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before

89open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 4.0 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
68
Non-hazardous
16

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings33
  • Leaks, damp or mould10
  • Plumbing8
  • Doors, windows and locks8
  • Other repairs7
  • Electrical7

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Smicon Realty Management, LLC manages 22 other buildings we cover, holding 322 apartments.

open violations
34open violations
immediately hazardous
6immediately hazardous
311 complaints
74311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per apartment

The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 128 2nd Avenue yet.

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