157 East 3rd Street
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009
157 East 3rd Street is an 18-apartment building in East Village, built in 1910, managed by Matel Realty LLC. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, all of them immediately hazardous, about 0.11 per apartment, below 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 130 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 Matel Realty LLC
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- Units
- 18
- Year built
- 1910
- 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.
1tenant complaint
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 130 days · neighborhood median is 4
2open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 2
- Hazardous
- 0
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Heat or hot water2
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Matel Realty LLC manages 37 other buildings we cover, holding 761 apartments.
- open violations
- 106open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 23immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 58311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per 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 157 East 3rd Street yet.
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