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229 East 5th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10003

229 East 5th Street is a 10-apartment building in East Village, built in 1881, managed by Bronstein Properties LLC. The City has 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 1.3 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 223 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 Bronstein Properties LLC

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Units
10
Year built
1881
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.

2.6/5About 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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

223tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Other repairs1
  • Plumbing1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.

A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Bronstein Properties LLC manages 38 other buildings we cover, holding 858 apartments.

open violations
165open violations
immediately hazardous
34immediately hazardous
311 complaints
224311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

Nobody has written about 229 East 5th Street yet.

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