Rankings for August 2026

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Most open hazardous violations per apartment

Management companies with the most open Class C violations, the City's “immediately hazardous” category, covering no heat, no hot water, lead and vermin, measured per apartment across their whole portfolio.

Who is included: At least 5 buildings and 50 apartments, so one bad building cannot top the list. Source: NYC Housing Preservation & Development, open violations, as recorded in August 2026.

1
Citi-urban Management
120 open across 90 apartments in 6 buildings
1.33 per apartment
2
Wayfinderpm LLC
144 open across 134 apartments in 11 buildings
1.07 per apartment
3
Ejs Equities LLC
79 open across 90 apartments in 8 buildings
0.88 per apartment
4
El-kam Realty Company
43 open across 54 apartments in 5 buildings
0.80 per apartment
5
Exl Management LLC
80 open across 101 apartments in 11 buildings
0.79 per apartment
6
Esquire Management CORP.
68 open across 94 apartments in 14 buildings
0.72 per apartment
7
Solar Realty Management CORP
36 open across 54 apartments in 5 buildings
0.67 per apartment
8
Quality BH 108th Manhattan LLC
96 open across 147 apartments in 5 buildings
0.65 per apartment
9
East West Realty
68 open across 108 apartments in 10 buildings
0.63 per apartment
10
Flatiron Real Estate Advisors LLC
34 open across 60 apartments in 9 buildings
0.57 per apartment
11
Citi-urban MGMT CORP
176 open across 326 apartments in 13 buildings
0.54 per apartment
12
Ad Real Estate Investors INC
147 open across 280 apartments in 17 buildings
0.53 per apartment
13
New York City MGMT LLC
34 open across 73 apartments in 7 buildings
0.47 per apartment
14
Sonaal Industries, INC
20 open across 50 apartments in 8 buildings
0.40 per apartment
15
Birchwood Properties LLC
31 open across 78 apartments in 6 buildings
0.40 per apartment
16
Sand Asset Management LLC
75 open across 189 apartments in 15 buildings
0.40 per apartment
17
Big Apple Management, LLC
108 open across 277 apartments in 21 buildings
0.39 per apartment
18
Apex Management Group
205 open across 527 apartments in 41 buildings
0.39 per apartment
19
Khedouri Ezair CORP
30 open across 78 apartments in 10 buildings
0.38 per apartment
20
North American Property Group INC
19 open across 50 apartments in 11 buildings
0.38 per apartment

Slowest to close a 311 complaint

Management companies whose tenants' 311 complaints took the City longest to close, weighted by how many complaints each building contributed.

Who is included: At least 5 buildings and 10 complaints in the past year, so a single slow case cannot decide the ranking. Source: NYC 311 service requests, past 12 months, as recorded in August 2026.

1
Pearl Road Management CORP.
median across 19 complaints in 7 buildings
73 days
2
Aj Clarke Re CORP
median across 33 complaints in 9 buildings
62 days
3
Rudd Management LLC
median across 36 complaints in 7 buildings
56 days
4
RY Management CO INC
median across 43 complaints in 8 buildings
52 days
5
Wallack Management Company, INC.
median across 59 complaints in 12 buildings
51 days
6
New York City Management
median across 30 complaints in 7 buildings
49 days
7
Allied Partners
median across 43 complaints in 16 buildings
48 days
8
Frontgate Management
median across 39 complaints in 7 buildings
48 days
9
Fairstead Management LLC
median across 30 complaints in 6 buildings
48 days
10
Solstice Residential Group, LLC
median across 70 complaints in 15 buildings
46 days
11
Tristar Equities
median across 19 complaints in 7 buildings
46 days
12
Helm Management INC
median across 21 complaints in 6 buildings
46 days
13
Synoptic Management CORP
median across 43 complaints in 5 buildings
44 days
14
A. Michael Tyler Realty CORP
median across 15 complaints in 5 buildings
44 days
15
Lalezarian Developers INC
median across 74 complaints in 10 buildings
43 days
16
Nejat Management
median across 40 complaints in 6 buildings
42 days
17
Alto Property Managers LLC
median across 17 complaints in 6 buildings
40 days
18
Sandberg Management
median across 73 complaints in 8 buildings
39 days
19
Buchbinder & Warren LLC
median across 74 complaints in 19 buildings
38 days
20
Eric Goodman Realty CORP
median across 18 complaints in 5 buildings
38 days

Neighborhoods by open violations per apartment

Every neighborhood we cover, ranked by open housing-code violations of all classes per apartment.

Who is included: Every covered neighborhood appears; only buildings reporting an apartment count are included. Source: NYC Housing Preservation & Development, open violations, as recorded in August 2026.

1
South Williamsburg
11,983 open across 12,550 apartments in 1,770 buildings
0.95 per apartment
2
Clinton Hill
13,303 open across 14,661 apartments in 1,998 buildings
0.91 per apartment
3
Greenpoint
16,059 open across 26,725 apartments in 4,077 buildings
0.60 per apartment
4
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
8,196 open across 15,323 apartments in 1,165 buildings
0.53 per apartment
5
Chinatown-Two Bridges
9,451 open across 17,754 apartments in 718 buildings
0.53 per apartment
6
Fort Greene
10,358 open across 20,063 apartments in 1,788 buildings
0.52 per apartment
7
Williamsburg
16,999 open across 33,622 apartments in 2,819 buildings
0.51 per apartment
8
East Village
20,227 open across 40,188 apartments in 1,964 buildings
0.50 per apartment
9
East Williamsburg
13,291 open across 26,817 apartments in 3,296 buildings
0.50 per apartment
10
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
11,837 open across 26,994 apartments in 816 buildings
0.44 per apartment
11
Hell's Kitchen
14,742 open across 40,298 apartments in 1,116 buildings
0.37 per apartment
12
Upper West Side (Central)
20,087 open across 57,309 apartments in 2,446 buildings
0.35 per apartment
13
West Village
8,446 open across 24,537 apartments in 1,782 buildings
0.34 per apartment
14
Lower East Side
8,661 open across 25,682 apartments in 701 buildings
0.34 per apartment
15
Greenwich Village
5,269 open across 21,503 apartments in 875 buildings
0.25 per apartment
16
Gramercy
4,412 open across 18,777 apartments in 640 buildings
0.23 per apartment
17
Upper East Side-Yorkville
11,574 open across 50,983 apartments in 1,393 buildings
0.23 per apartment
18
Chelsea-Hudson Yards
9,769 open across 46,191 apartments in 1,433 buildings
0.21 per apartment
19
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
6,222 open across 29,746 apartments in 1,621 buildings
0.21 per apartment
20
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill
8,334 open across 40,074 apartments in 2,295 buildings
0.21 per apartment
21
Midtown-Times Square
3,785 open across 21,709 apartments in 442 buildings
0.17 per apartment
22
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
3,406 open across 21,029 apartments in 567 buildings
0.16 per apartment
23
East Midtown-Turtle Bay
5,339 open across 34,205 apartments in 815 buildings
0.16 per apartment
24
Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island
8,914 open across 60,360 apartments in 1,182 buildings
0.15 per apartment
25
Murray Hill-Kips Bay
6,222 open across 42,449 apartments in 931 buildings
0.15 per apartment
26
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
5,469 open across 45,384 apartments in 802 buildings
0.12 per apartment
27
Tribeca-Civic Center
1,268 open across 12,249 apartments in 637 buildings
0.10 per apartment
28
Financial District-Battery Park City
1,262 open across 36,542 apartments in 295 buildings
0.03 per apartment
29
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village
47 open across 11,255 apartments in 2 buildings
0.00 per apartment

Lowest rated by tenants

Management companies with the lowest average rating from tenants who lived in their buildings.

Who is included: At least 5 reviews per company, and at least 10 companies qualifying, before this list is published at all. Source: Reviews written on this site, as recorded in August 2026.

Not yet. 0 of 10 companies have the 5 reviews this list requires. A ranking built from fewer would say more about who happened to write than about who manages badly, so it stays unpublished until it is worth reading.