179 Essex Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
179 Essex Street is a 6-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by Centennial Properties NY. The City has 25 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 4.2 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 6 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 Centennial Properties NY
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- Units
- 6
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
Complaints are down from 42 to 6 year on year.
6tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 42 the year before
25open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 4.2 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 5
- Hazardous
- 15
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings12
- Leaks, damp or mould8
- Other repairs5
- Pests4
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Electrical2
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Centennial Properties NY manages 71 other buildings we cover, holding 1,224 apartments.
- open violations
- 809open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 283immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 796311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per 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 179 Essex Street yet.
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