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217 2nd Avenue

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

217 2nd Avenue is a 5-apartment building in East Village, built in 1900, managed by Kinsey Equities, LLC. The City has 28 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 5.6 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 Kinsey Equities, LLC

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Units
5
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.

1.5/5Among 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

28open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 5.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
18
Non-hazardous
9

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings13
  • Other repairs7
  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Kinsey Equities, LLC manages 17 other buildings we cover, holding 251 apartments.

open violations
152open violations
immediately hazardous
60immediately hazardous
311 complaints
88311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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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