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257 Water Street

Manhattan · Financial District-Battery Park City, NY 10038

Also listed by the City as 23 Peck Slip

257 Water Street is a 20-apartment building in Financial District-Battery Park City, built in 1900, managed by Livingston Management Services LLC. The City has 10 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.50 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 5 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 189 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 Livingston Management Services LLC

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Units
20
Year built
1900
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.

5tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 189 days · neighborhood median is 4

10open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Leaks, damp or mould3
  • Pests2
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Livingston Management Services LLC manages 111 other buildings we cover, holding 2,442 apartments.

open violations
1,201open violations
immediately hazardous
292immediately hazardous
311 complaints
902311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.5per 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 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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