159 Chrystie Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
159 Chrystie Street is an 8-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by Solar Realty Management CORP. The City has 19 open housing-code violations on file for it, 9 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.4 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 67 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 Solar Realty Management CORP
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- Units
- 8
- Year built
- 1900
- 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.
Complaints are down from 3 to 2 year on year.
2tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before
Typically closed in 67 days · neighborhood median is 4
19open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.4 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 9
- Hazardous
- 9
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Leaks, damp or mould8
- Stairs, floors and ceilings6
- Doors, windows and locks6
- Smoke and CO alarms3
- Pests3
- Electrical1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Solar Realty Management CORP manages 4 other buildings we cover, holding 46 apartments.
- open violations
- 101open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 33immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 33311 complaints
- per apartment
- 2.2per 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
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