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161 Orchard Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

161 Orchard Street is an 11-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 10 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.0 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 14 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 Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management

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Units
11
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.

1.8/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

14tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 8 the year before

Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 4

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.0 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
10
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management manages 72 other buildings we cover, holding 1,121 apartments.

open violations
1,172open violations
immediately hazardous
355immediately hazardous
311 complaints
1,444311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.0per 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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