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259 East Broadway

Manhattan · Chinatown-Two Bridges, NY 10002

259 East Broadway is a 15-apartment building in Chinatown-Two Bridges, built in 1900, managed by Building Equity Management LLC. The City has 22 open housing-code violations on file for it, 8 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.5 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 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 Building Equity Management LLC

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Units
15
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.

2.1/5Worse 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.

3tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

22open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
8
Hazardous
10
Non-hazardous
4

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings11
  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Pests3
  • Leaks, damp or mould2

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Building Equity Management LLC manages 48 other buildings we cover, holding 648 apartments.

open violations
184open violations
immediately hazardous
62immediately hazardous
311 complaints
15311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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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