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209 REAR East 5th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

Also listed by the City as 209 East 5th Street

209 REAR East 5th Street is a 10-apartment building in East Village, built in 1910, managed by Novum Properties, INC. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, all of them immediately hazardous, about 0.20 per apartment, close to 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 Novum Properties, INC.

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Units
10
Year built
1910
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.

3.2/5About 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.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

2open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
0
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Novum Properties, INC manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 164 apartments.

open violations
4open violations
immediately hazardous
1immediately hazardous
311 complaints
4311 complaints

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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 209 REAR East 5th Street yet.

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