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71 Columbia Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

Also listed by the City as 87 Delancey Street

71 Columbia Street is a 1,099-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1966, managed by Metro Management Development. The City has 37 open housing-code violations on file for it, 15 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.03 per apartment, well below the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 22 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 15 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 Metro Management Development

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Units
1099
Year built
1966
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.

4.6/5Little on recordScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

22tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before

Typically closed in 15 days · neighborhood median is 4

37open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

3 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
15
Hazardous
11
Non-hazardous
11

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings14
  • Pests9
  • Leaks, damp or mould5
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Other repairs2

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 5 times 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Metro Management Development manages 23 other buildings we cover, holding 11,095 apartments.

open violations
410open violations
immediately hazardous
77immediately hazardous
311 complaints
135311 complaints

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 71 Columbia Street yet.

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