49 Essex Street
Manhattan · Chinatown-Two Bridges, NY 10002
49 Essex Street is a 15-apartment building in Chinatown-Two Bridges, built in 1900, managed by Brownstone Professional Services CORP. The City has 4 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.27 per apartment, close to the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 13 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 Brownstone Professional Services CORP
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- Units
- 15
- Year built
- 1900
- Neighborhood
- Chinatown-Two Bridges
- 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.
13tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
Typically closed in 5 days · neighborhood median is 3
4open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 2
- Non-hazardous
- 2
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings3
- Leaks, damp or mould1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Brownstone Professional Services CORP manages 45 other buildings we cover, holding 646 apartments.
- open violations
- 177open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 58immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 286311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.3per 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
Nobody has written about 49 Essex Street yet.
Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.
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