227 East 5th Street
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003
227 East 5th Street is a 22-apartment building in East Village, built in 1967, managed by Matel Realty LLC. The City has 6 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.27 per apartment, somewhat above the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 Matel Realty LLC
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- Units
- 22
- Year built
- 1967
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
Complaints are down from 5 to 2 year on year.
2tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before
6open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 3
- Hazardous
- 1
- Non-hazardous
- 2
What the open repairs are about
- Heat or hot water3
- Other repairs2
- Stairs, floors and ceilings1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Matel Realty LLC manages 37 other buildings we cover, holding 757 apartments.
- open violations
- 109open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 24immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 46311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per apartment
in the past year
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
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