42 Avenue B
Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009
42 Avenue B is a 12-apartment building in East Village, built in 1900, managed by Centennial Properties NY. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.75 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Centennial Properties NY
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- Units
- 12
- 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.
Complaints are down from 5 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before
9open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.8 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 3
- Hazardous
- 4
- Non-hazardous
- 2
What the open repairs are about
- Doors, windows and locks7
- Stairs, floors and ceilings1
- Heat or hot water1
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Centennial Properties NY manages 71 other buildings we cover, holding 1,218 apartments.
- open violations
- 825open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 285immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 802311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per 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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