53 West 8th Street
Manhattan · Greenwich Village, NY 10011
53 West 8th Street is a 15-apartment building in Greenwich Village, built in 1890, managed by Berik Management. The City has 4 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 0.27 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 17 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 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 Berik Management
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- Units
- 15
- Year built
- 1890
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 4 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.
17tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
4open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 3
- Non-hazardous
- 1
What the open repairs are about
- Leaks, damp or mould1
- Other repairs1
- Stairs, floors and ceilings1
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Berik Management manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 122 apartments.
- open violations
- 132open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 17immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 69311 complaints
- per apartment
- 1.1per 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 53 West 8th Street yet.
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