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85 Pitt Street

Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002

85 Pitt Street is a 21-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1920, managed by Ad Real Estate Investors INC. The City has 35 open housing-code violations on file for it, 6 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.7 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 18 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 1 day (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by Ad Real Estate Investors INC

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Units
21
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.

2.1/5Worse 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 1 day from complaint to close, faster than the 4-day neighborhood median.

18tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 11 the year before

35open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
6
Hazardous
20
Non-hazardous
9

What the open repairs are about

  • Smoke and CO alarms12
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings7
  • Other repairs6
  • Doors, windows and locks3
  • Leaks, damp or mould2
  • Electrical1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 3 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Ad Real Estate Investors INC manages 16 other buildings we cover, holding 259 apartments.

open violations
605open violations
immediately hazardous
145immediately hazardous
311 complaints
98311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
2.3per 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

Nobody has written about 85 Pitt Street yet.

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