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42 East 20th Street

Manhattan · Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, NY 10003

42 East 20th Street is a 22-apartment building in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, built in 1899, managed by Building Equity MGMT LLC. The City has no open housing-code violations on file for it (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 5 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 Building Equity MGMT LLC

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Units
22
Year built
1899
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.

5.0/5Little on recordScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 4

0open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Building Equity MGMT LLC manages 23 other buildings we cover, holding 471 apartments.

open violations
290open violations
immediately hazardous
52immediately hazardous
311 complaints
30311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.6per 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 42 East 20th Street yet.

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