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14 Avenue A

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

14 Avenue A is a 16-apartment building in East Village, built in 1900, managed by Safeguard Realty Management LLC. The City has 43 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.7 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 26 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 Safeguard Realty Management LLC

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Units
16
Year built
1900
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.

2.0/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 26 days · neighborhood median is 4

43open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
24
Non-hazardous
16

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings21
  • Doors, windows and locks9
  • Smoke and CO alarms5
  • Leaks, damp or mould4
  • Plumbing2
  • Pests1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Safeguard Realty Management LLC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 115 apartments.

open violations
79open violations
immediately hazardous
29immediately hazardous
311 complaints
7311 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.)

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