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136 Orchard Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

136 Orchard Street is a 16-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by 15th Associates LLC. The City has 29 open housing-code violations on file for it, 21 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.8 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 4 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by 15th Associates LLC

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Units
16
Year built
1900
Neighborhood
Lower East Side
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.

1.7/5Among 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

4tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

29open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.8 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
21
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
6

What the open repairs are about

  • Heat or hot water15
  • Electrical7
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Paint and plaster3
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2

Housing Court

The City 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

15th Associates LLC manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 135 apartments.

open violations
79open violations
immediately hazardous
5immediately hazardous
311 complaints
11311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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 136 Orchard Street yet.

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