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198 1st Avenue

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

Also listed by the City as 405 East 12th Street

198 1st Avenue is a 28-apartment building in East Village, built in 1900, managed by Jakobson Properties, LLC. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.32 per apartment, somewhat above the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 8 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Jakobson Properties, LLC

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Units
28
Year built
1900
Neighborhood
East 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.

3.3/5About 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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

8tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

9open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1
  • Other repairs1
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Jakobson Properties, LLC manages 20 other buildings we cover, holding 529 apartments.

open violations
140open violations
immediately hazardous
38immediately hazardous
311 complaints
115311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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

Nobody has written about 198 1st Avenue yet.

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