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20 Commerce Street

Manhattan · West Village, NY 10014

20 Commerce Street is a 20-apartment building in West Village, built in 1854, managed by Vanderleigh Properties LLC. The City has 24 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.2 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 21 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Vanderleigh Properties LLC

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Units
20
Year built
1854
Neighborhood
West 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.

2.2/5Worse 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 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 34 to 21 year on year.

21tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 34 the year before

24open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
15
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Pests1

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Vanderleigh Properties LLC manages 16 other buildings we cover, holding 551 apartments.

open violations
188open violations
immediately hazardous
46immediately hazardous
311 complaints
111311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 20 Commerce Street yet.

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