16 Avenue A
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009
Also listed by the City as 20 Avenue A
16 Avenue A is a 63-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Tristar Management Associates LLC. The City has 18 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.29 per apartment, somewhat above the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 68 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Tristar Management Associates LLC
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- Units
- 63
- 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 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
68tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 6 the year before
18open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 7
- Hazardous
- 4
- Non-hazardous
- 7
What the open repairs are about
- Other repairs12
- Stairs, floors and ceilings7
- Pests6
- Doors, windows and locks4
- Heat or hot water3
- Rubbish and cleanliness2
Housing Court
The City 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Tristar Management Associates LLC manages 25 other buildings we cover, holding 326 apartments.
- open violations
- 170open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 52immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 286311 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 16 Avenue A yet.
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