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218 East 6th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

218 East 6th Street is a 21-apartment building in East Village, built in 1925, managed by Jakobson Properties, LLC. The City has 35 open housing-code violations on file for it, 11 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.7 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Jakobson Properties, LLC

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Units
21
Year built
1925
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.

2.3/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 5 to 1 year on year.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before

35open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
11
Hazardous
12
Non-hazardous
12

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks19
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings8
  • Smoke and CO alarms6
  • Plumbing3
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Jakobson Properties, LLC manages 20 other buildings we cover, holding 536 apartments.

open violations
114open violations
immediately hazardous
28immediately hazardous
311 complaints
122311 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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