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196 Stanton Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

196 Stanton Street is a 6-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1950, managed by Helm Management INC. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 1.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Helm Management INC

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Units
6
Year built
1950
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.

2.6/5About average for the areaScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 4 to 0 year on year.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

9open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Smoke and CO alarms4
  • Leaks, damp or mould2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Helm Management INC manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 126 apartments.

open violations
80open violations
immediately hazardous
7immediately hazardous
311 complaints
27311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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

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