156 2nd Avenue
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003
156 2nd Avenue is a 31-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Ryco NYC LLC. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.42 per apartment, about double the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 15 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 Ryco NYC LLC
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- Units
- 31
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
15tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 14 the year before
13open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.4 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 8
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings6
- Paint and plaster3
- Smoke and CO alarms1
- Leaks, damp or mould1
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Ryco NYC LLC manages 19 other buildings we cover, holding 283 apartments.
- open violations
- 141open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 23immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 54311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.5per apartment
in the past year
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 156 2nd Avenue yet.
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