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251 West 26th Street

Manhattan · Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, NY 10001

251 West 26th Street is a 16-apartment building in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, built in 1901, managed by Rowdy Management. The City has 19 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.2 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 complaints 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 Rowdy Management

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Units
16
Year built
1901
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.

2.2/5Worse 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.

7tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

19open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
5

What the open repairs are about

  • Electrical6
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Other repairs5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings1
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Smoke and CO alarms1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Rowdy Management manages 15 other buildings we cover, holding 197 apartments.

open violations
145open violations
immediately hazardous
43immediately hazardous
311 complaints
80311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.7per 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

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