162 East 2nd Street
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009
Also listed by the City as 160 East 2nd Street
162 East 2nd Street is a 24-apartment building in East Village, built in 1950, managed by Lespmha INC. The City has 64 open housing-code violations on file for it, 10 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.7 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 23 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 17 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 Lespmha INC
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- Units
- 24
- Year built
- 1950
- 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.
23tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 17 days · neighborhood median is 4
64open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.7 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 10
- Hazardous
- 37
- Non-hazardous
- 17
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings27
- Smoke and CO alarms12
- Leaks, damp or mould11
- Doors, windows and locks10
- Heat or hot water6
- Electrical3
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Lespmha INC manages 27 other buildings we cover, holding 401 apartments.
- open violations
- 215open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 56immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 112311 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 162 East 2nd Street yet.
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