605 Water Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
605 Water Street is a 124-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1964, managed by Prestige Management INC. The City has 34 open housing-code violations on file for it, 8 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.27 per apartment, about double 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 22 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 Prestige Management INC.
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- Units
- 124
- Year built
- 1964
- Neighborhood
- Lower East Side
- 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.
Complaints are down from 22 to 13 year on year.
13tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 22 the year before
Typically closed in 22 days · neighborhood median is 4
34open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.3 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 8
- Hazardous
- 19
- Non-hazardous
- 7
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings15
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Smoke and CO alarms5
- Pests4
- Plumbing2
- Electrical2
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 4 times since October 2023. The court entered judgment against the owner in 2 cases.
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Prestige Management INC manages 4 other buildings we cover, holding 621 apartments.
- open violations
- 103open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 19immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 20311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.2per 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 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 605 Water 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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