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218 East 12th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

218 East 12th Street is a 5-apartment building in East Village, built in 1910, managed by Building Equity MGMT LLC. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.40 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.

Managed by Building Equity MGMT LLC

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Units
5
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 0.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Building Equity MGMT LLC manages 23 other buildings we cover, holding 488 apartments.

open violations
288open violations
immediately hazardous
52immediately hazardous
311 complaints
30311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 218 East 12th Street yet.

Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.

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