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49 West 8th Street

Manhattan · Greenwich Village, NY 10011

49 West 8th Street is a 6-apartment building in Greenwich Village, built in 1845, managed by A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, 2 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.7 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed 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 A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP

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Units
6
Year built
1845
Neighborhood
Greenwich 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.

1.8/5Worse than most nearbyScored 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 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 2 to 1 year on year.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before

16open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
2
Hazardous
11
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms8
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings4
  • Doors, windows and locks4
  • Heat or hot water1
  • Other repairs1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

A.j. Clarke Real Estate CORP manages 106 other buildings we cover, holding 1,987 apartments.

open violations
1,279open violations
immediately hazardous
268immediately hazardous
311 complaints
304311 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

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