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538 East 14th Street

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

538 East 14th Street is a 20-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Aj Clarke Real Estate CORP. The City has 10 open housing-code violations on file for it, 4 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.50 per apartment, about double the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 3 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 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 Aj Clarke Real Estate CORP

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Units
20
Year built
1920
Neighborhood
East 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.

3.1/5About 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

3tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 1 the year before

10open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
4
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Other repairs1
  • Paint and plaster1
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Aj Clarke Real Estate CORP manages 9 other buildings we cover, holding 324 apartments.

open violations
43open violations
immediately hazardous
12immediately hazardous
311 complaints
8311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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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