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78 Rivington Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

78 Rivington Street is a 20-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1920, managed by Brownstone Professional Services CORP. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.55 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 5 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 Brownstone Professional Services CORP

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Units
20
Year built
1920
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.

2.7/5About 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.

5tenant complaints

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

11open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.6 per apartment

1 newly opened since our last check

Immediately hazardous
7
Hazardous
3
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Pests2
  • Heat or hot water2
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings2
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Brownstone Professional Services CORP manages 45 other buildings we cover, holding 641 apartments.

open violations
170open violations
immediately hazardous
51immediately hazardous
311 complaints
294311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.3per 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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