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149 Norfolk Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

Also listed by the City as 151 Norfolk Street

149 Norfolk Street is a 35-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1912, managed by Ra Cohen & Associates, INC. The City has 17 open housing-code violations on file for it, 16 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.49 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 12 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 17 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 Ra Cohen & Associates, INC.

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Units
35
Year built
1912
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.

2.2/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 22 to 12 year on year.

12tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 22 the year before

Typically closed in 17 days · neighborhood median is 4

17open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
16
Hazardous
1
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests18
  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Leaks, damp or mould2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Ra Cohen & Associates, INC manages 32 other buildings we cover, holding 817 apartments.

open violations
132open violations
immediately hazardous
22immediately hazardous
311 complaints
71311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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

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