Rate My LandlordAbout

138 East 16th Street

Manhattan · Gramercy, NY 10003

138 East 16th Street is a 10-apartment building in Gramercy, built in 1915, managed by Centennial Properties NY. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.50 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Centennial Properties NY

Be the first to review this building

Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? No public record answers that.

Write the first review

About a minute, no account, stays anonymous.

Units
10
Year built
1915
Neighborhood
Gramercy
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.

3.0/5About average for the areaScored 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 3 days from complaint to close.

Complaints are down from 3 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks4
  • Paint and plaster1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Centennial Properties NY manages 71 other buildings we cover, holding 1,220 apartments.

open violations
829open violations
immediately hazardous
286immediately hazardous
311 complaints
800311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per 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 138 East 16th Street yet.

Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.

Be the first to review

About a minute, no account, stays anonymous.

Also on East 16th Street

Every building on East 16th Street →

Also managed by Centennial Properties NY

Their whole portfolio →