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42 Commerce Street

Manhattan · West Village, NY 10014

42 Commerce Street is an 8-apartment building in West Village, built in 1858, managed by MD Squared Property Group. The City has 2 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.25 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (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 MD Squared Property Group

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Units
8
Year built
1858
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.

3.3/5About average for the areaScored 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 · 2 the year before

2open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
0
Hazardous
2
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Leaks, damp or mould1
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

MD Squared Property Group manages 91 other buildings we cover, holding 2,179 apartments.

open violations
497open violations
immediately hazardous
98immediately hazardous
311 complaints
190311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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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