252 South Street
Manhattan · Chinatown-Two Bridges, NY 10002
Also listed by the City as 225 Cherry Street
252 South Street is a 1,021-apartment building in Chinatown-Two Bridges, built in 2015, managed by Extell Management Services. The City has 88 open housing-code violations on file for it, 29 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.09 per apartment, well below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 7 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 14 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 Extell Management Services
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- Units
- 1021
- Year built
- 2015
- Neighborhood
- Chinatown-Two Bridges
- 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.
7tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before
Typically closed in 14 days · neighborhood median is 4
88open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
13 newly opened since our last check
- Immediately hazardous
- 29
- Hazardous
- 40
- Non-hazardous
- 19
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings27
- Pests18
- Doors, windows and locks13
- Smoke and CO alarms10
- Plumbing6
- Electrical6
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 12 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Extell Management Services manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 1,839 apartments.
- open violations
- 18open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 2immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 19311 complaints
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
Nobody has written about 252 South Street yet.
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