621 Water Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
621 Water Street is a 124-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1898, managed by Gouverneur Court Housing Development Fund CORP. The City has 153 open housing-code violations on file for it, 81 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.2 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 35 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 6 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 Gouverneur Court Housing Development Fund CORP
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- Units
- 124
- Year built
- 1898
- 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 125 to 35 year on year.
35tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 125 the year before
Typically closed in 6 days · neighborhood median is 4
153open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.2 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 81
- Hazardous
- 53
- Non-hazardous
- 19
What the open repairs are about
- Pests73
- Stairs, floors and ceilings19
- Plumbing14
- Doors, windows and locks14
- Smoke and CO alarms10
- Other repairs8
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times since October 2023. The City brought 1 case of its own.
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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 621 Water Street yet.
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