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286 East 2nd Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

286 East 2nd Street is a 20-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Helm Management INC. The City has 33 open housing-code violations on file for it, 5 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.6 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 20 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 15 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 Helm Management INC

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Units
20
Year built
1920
Neighborhood
East Village
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.

1.7/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

20tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 8 the year before

Typically closed in 15 days · neighborhood median is 4

33open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.6 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
5
Hazardous
22
Non-hazardous
6

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings16
  • Heat or hot water7
  • Other repairs6
  • Leaks, damp or mould4
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Paint and plaster2

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Helm Management INC manages 10 other buildings we cover, holding 112 apartments.

open violations
56open violations
immediately hazardous
3immediately hazardous
311 complaints
10311 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

Nobody has written about 286 East 2nd Street yet.

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