Rankings for September 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 September 2026.
- 1Citi-urban Management1.31 per apartment
118 open across 90 apartments in 6 buildings
- 2Wayfinderpm LLC1.06 per apartment
142 open across 134 apartments in 11 buildings
- 3Ejs Equities LLC0.88 per apartment
79 open across 90 apartments in 8 buildings
- 4El-kam Realty Company0.80 per apartment
43 open across 54 apartments in 5 buildings
- 5Exl Management LLC0.79 per apartment
80 open across 101 apartments in 11 buildings
- 6Solar Realty Management CORP0.74 per apartment
40 open across 54 apartments in 5 buildings
- 7Esquire Management CORP.0.72 per apartment
68 open across 94 apartments in 14 buildings
- 8Quality BH 108th Manhattan LLC0.65 per apartment
96 open across 147 apartments in 5 buildings
- 9East West Realty0.63 per apartment
68 open across 108 apartments in 10 buildings
- 10Flatiron Real Estate Advisors LLC0.57 per apartment
34 open across 60 apartments in 9 buildings
- 11Citi-urban MGMT CORP0.54 per apartment
176 open across 326 apartments in 13 buildings
- 12Ad Real Estate Investors INC0.54 per apartment
150 open across 280 apartments in 17 buildings
- 13New York City MGMT LLC0.47 per apartment
34 open across 73 apartments in 7 buildings
- 14Sonaal Industries, INC0.40 per apartment
20 open across 50 apartments in 8 buildings
- 15Birchwood Properties LLC0.40 per apartment
31 open across 78 apartments in 6 buildings
- 16Sand Asset Management LLC0.40 per apartment
75 open across 189 apartments in 15 buildings
- 17Apex Management Group0.39 per apartment
205 open across 527 apartments in 41 buildings
- 18Big Apple Management, LLC0.39 per apartment
107 open across 277 apartments in 21 buildings
- 19Khedouri Ezair CORP0.38 per apartment
30 open across 78 apartments in 10 buildings
- 20North American Property Group INC0.38 per apartment
19 open across 50 apartments in 11 buildings
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 September 2026.
- 1Benchmark Re Group LP104 days
median across 31 complaints in 6 buildings
- 2Aj Clarke Re CORP67 days
median across 48 complaints in 9 buildings
- 3Pride Property Management55 days
median across 13 complaints in 5 buildings
- 4Wallack Management Company, INC.54 days
median across 45 complaints in 14 buildings
- 5Time Equities INC52 days
median across 24 complaints in 7 buildings
- 6Pearl Road Management CORP.52 days
median across 18 complaints in 7 buildings
- 7Ogden Cap Properties LLC52 days
median across 31 complaints in 5 buildings
- 8Eric Goodman Realty CORP49 days
median across 16 complaints in 5 buildings
- 9Magnum Real Estate Group LLC49 days
median across 18 complaints in 5 buildings
- 10Harlington Realty CO LLC47 days
median across 28 complaints in 7 buildings
- 11East West Realty46 days
median across 13 complaints in 5 buildings
- 12Building Equity Management LLC44 days
median across 24 complaints in 9 buildings
- 13RY Management CO INC43 days
median across 58 complaints in 9 buildings
- 14Solstice Residential Group, LLC42 days
median across 73 complaints in 16 buildings
- 15Allied Partners42 days
median across 38 complaints in 17 buildings
- 16SHP Management CORP41 days
median across 67 complaints in 5 buildings
- 17Allied Realty & Development CORP39 days
median across 16 complaints in 5 buildings
- 18Finger Management Realty LLC38 days
median across 60 complaints in 8 buildings
- 19HSC Management CORP.36 days
median across 23 complaints in 11 buildings
- 20Tissa Management36 days
median across 42 complaints in 9 buildings
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 September 2026.
- 1South Williamsburg0.95 per apartment
11,979 open across 12,550 apartments in 1,770 buildings
- 2Clinton Hill0.91 per apartment
13,300 open across 14,661 apartments in 1,998 buildings
- 3Greenpoint0.60 per apartment
16,035 open across 26,725 apartments in 4,077 buildings
- 4SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square0.54 per apartment
8,216 open across 15,323 apartments in 1,165 buildings
- 5Chinatown-Two Bridges0.53 per apartment
9,450 open across 17,754 apartments in 718 buildings
- 6Fort Greene0.52 per apartment
10,357 open across 20,063 apartments in 1,788 buildings
- 7Williamsburg0.51 per apartment
16,997 open across 33,622 apartments in 2,819 buildings
- 8East Village0.50 per apartment
20,199 open across 40,188 apartments in 1,964 buildings
- 9East Williamsburg0.50 per apartment
13,337 open across 26,817 apartments in 3,296 buildings
- 10Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley0.44 per apartment
11,891 open across 26,994 apartments in 816 buildings
- 11Hell's Kitchen0.37 per apartment
14,821 open across 40,298 apartments in 1,116 buildings
- 12Upper West Side (Central)0.35 per apartment
20,173 open across 57,309 apartments in 2,446 buildings
- 13West Village0.34 per apartment
8,437 open across 24,537 apartments in 1,782 buildings
- 14Lower East Side0.34 per apartment
8,667 open across 25,682 apartments in 701 buildings
- 15Greenwich Village0.24 per apartment
5,258 open across 21,503 apartments in 875 buildings
- 16Gramercy0.24 per apartment
4,422 open across 18,777 apartments in 640 buildings
- 17Upper East Side-Yorkville0.23 per apartment
11,594 open across 50,983 apartments in 1,393 buildings
- 18Chelsea-Hudson Yards0.21 per apartment
9,753 open across 46,191 apartments in 1,433 buildings
- 19Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill0.21 per apartment
6,208 open across 29,746 apartments in 1,621 buildings
- 20Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill0.21 per apartment
8,323 open across 40,074 apartments in 2,295 buildings
- 21Midtown-Times Square0.18 per apartment
3,801 open across 21,709 apartments in 442 buildings
- 22Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square0.16 per apartment
3,398 open across 21,029 apartments in 567 buildings
- 23East Midtown-Turtle Bay0.16 per apartment
5,355 open across 34,205 apartments in 815 buildings
- 24Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island0.15 per apartment
8,923 open across 60,360 apartments in 1,182 buildings
- 25Murray Hill-Kips Bay0.15 per apartment
6,235 open across 42,449 apartments in 931 buildings
- 26Upper West Side-Lincoln Square0.12 per apartment
5,481 open across 45,384 apartments in 802 buildings
- 27Tribeca-Civic Center0.10 per apartment
1,267 open across 12,249 apartments in 637 buildings
- 28Financial District-Battery Park City0.03 per apartment
1,262 open across 36,542 apartments in 295 buildings
- 29Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village0.00 per apartment
46 open across 11,255 apartments in 2 buildings
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 September 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.