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190 South 8th Street

Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211

190 South 8th Street is a 41-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 1917, managed by Gilman Management CORP. The City has 53 open housing-code violations on file for it, 21 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.3 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 42 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 Gilman Management CORP.

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Units
41
Year built
1917
Neighborhood
Williamsburg
Borough
Brooklyn

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.

1.9/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 5 days from complaint to close.

Complaints are down from 87 to 42 year on year.

42tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 87 the year before

53open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
21
Hazardous
29
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Paint and plaster16
  • Pests9
  • Heat or hot water8
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Other repairs5
  • Doors, windows and locks4

Housing Court

The City 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Gilman Management CORP manages 17 other buildings we cover, holding 263 apartments.

open violations
246open violations
immediately hazardous
54immediately hazardous
311 complaints
100311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.9per 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 190 South 8th Street yet.

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