42 8th Avenue
Manhattan · West Village, NY 10014
42 8th Avenue is a 127-apartment building in West Village, built in 1959, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.09 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 48 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 Akam Associates, INC.
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- Units
- 127
- Year built
- 1959
- Neighborhood
- West 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.
48tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 20 the year before
11open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 4
- Hazardous
- 2
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Pests4
- Stairs, floors and ceilings4
- Smoke and CO alarms1
- Plumbing1
- Heat or hot water1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Akam Associates, INC manages 257 other buildings we cover, holding 34,895 apartments.
- open violations
- 2,922open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 346immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 385311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per apartment
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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
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