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56 Avenue B

Manhattan · East Village, NY 10009

Also listed by the City as 235 East 4th Street

56 Avenue B is a 30-apartment building in East Village, built in 1920, managed by Vanderleigh Properties LLC. The City has 4 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.13 per apartment, below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 2 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 Vanderleigh Properties LLC

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Units
30
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.

4.1/5Better 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 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 4 to 2 year on year.

2tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 4 the year before

4open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
1
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Pests1
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Vanderleigh Properties LLC manages 16 other buildings we cover, holding 541 apartments.

open violations
211open violations
immediately hazardous
48immediately hazardous
311 complaints
111311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.4per 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.)

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