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217 East 5th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

217 East 5th Street is an 11-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Matthew Adam Properties. The City has 5 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.45 per apartment, about double 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.

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Units
11
Year built
1920
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.

2.9/5About 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

5open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
1
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Heat or hot water2
  • Smoke and CO alarms1
  • Doors, windows and locks1
  • Electrical1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Matthew Adam Properties manages 44 other buildings we cover, holding 1,898 apartments.

open violations
323open violations
immediately hazardous
60immediately hazardous
311 complaints
33311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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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