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388 East 8th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

Also listed by the City as 390 East 8th Street

388 East 8th Street is a 36-apartment building in East Village, built in 1900, managed by HSC Management CORP., Amo. The City has 184 open housing-code violations on file for it, 52 of them immediately hazardous, about 5.1 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 31 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 HSC Management CORP., Amo

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Units
36
Year built
1900
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.

1.3/5Among 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.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

31tenant complaints

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

184open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 5.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
52
Hazardous
94
Non-hazardous
38

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings53
  • Doors, windows and locks49
  • Other repairs23
  • Leaks, damp or mould20
  • Smoke and CO alarms15
  • Pests11

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

HSC Management CORP., Amo manages 21 other buildings we cover, holding 348 apartments.

open violations
313open violations
immediately hazardous
83immediately hazardous
311 complaints
82311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.9per 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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