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19 West 8th Street

Manhattan · Greenwich Village, NY 10011

19 West 8th Street is an 8-apartment building in Greenwich Village, built in 1846, managed by Merchants Properties, INC. The City has 15 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.9 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Merchants Properties, INC.

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Units
8
Year built
1846
Neighborhood
Greenwich 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.

2.1/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

15open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.9 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Doors, windows and locks3
  • Pests2
  • Heat or hot water1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Merchants Properties, INC manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 110 apartments.

open violations
86open violations
immediately hazardous
32immediately hazardous
311 complaint
1311 complaint

in the past year

per apartment
0.8per 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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