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212 Forsyth Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

212 Forsyth Street is a 6-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1900, managed by H. F. Hewitt Realty. The City has 32 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 5.3 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 H. F. Hewitt Realty

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Units
6
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.

1.4/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored 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

32open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 5.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
30
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks12
  • Other repairs10
  • Plumbing3
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

H. F. Hewitt Realty manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 44 apartments.

open violations
95open violations
immediately hazardous
15immediately hazardous
311 complaints
7311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
2.2per 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

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