250 Broome Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
250 Broome Street is a 22-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1890, managed by Sma INC. The City has 57 open housing-code violations on file for it, 27 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 70 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 Sma INC
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- Units
- 22
- Year built
- 1890
- Neighborhood
- Lower East Side
- 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.
70tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 14 the year before
57open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 2.6 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 27
- Hazardous
- 25
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings18
- Doors, windows and locks11
- Pests9
- Other repairs8
- Leaks, damp or mould4
- Smoke and CO alarms2
Housing Court
The City took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time since October 2023.
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Sma INC manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 68 apartments.
- open violations
- 117open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 22immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 41311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.7per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 250 Broome 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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