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159 Christopher Street

Manhattan · West Village, NY 10014

Also listed by the City as 649 Washington Street

159 Christopher Street is a 12-apartment building in West Village, built in 1880, managed by Vanderleigh Properties LLC. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.25 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 4 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 5 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 Vanderleigh Properties LLC

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Units
12
Year built
1880
Neighborhood
West 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.

3.1/5About 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.

4tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 4

3open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment

3 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Heat or hot water1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Vanderleigh Properties LLC manages 16 other buildings we cover, holding 559 apartments.

open violations
212open violations
immediately hazardous
50immediately hazardous
311 complaints
109311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.4per 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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