197 Bowery
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
197 Bowery is a building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by Breaking Ground Management. The City has 3 open housing-code violations on file for it (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 0 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 Breaking Ground Management
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- Units
- 0
- 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 under a day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
3tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
3open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
3 newly opened since our last check
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 2
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings2
- Leaks, damp or mould1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Breaking Ground Management manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 1,701 apartments.
- open violations
- 365open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 117immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 915311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.2per 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 197 Bowery yet.
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