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156 Front Street

Manhattan · Financial District-Battery Park City, NY 10038

156 Front Street is a 63-apartment building in Financial District-Battery Park City, built in 1930, managed by Samson Management LLC. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.08 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 48 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 19 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 Samson Management LLC

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Units
63
Year built
1930
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.

3.4/5About 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.

48tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 45 the year before

Typically closed in 19 days · neighborhood median is 4

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Electrical3
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Heat or hot water1

Housing Court

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Samson Management LLC manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 231 apartments.

open violations
53open violations
immediately hazardous
17immediately hazardous
311 complaints
50311 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

Nobody has written about 156 Front Street yet.

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