157 East 2nd Street, Manhattan, NY 10009
157 East 2nd Street is a 5-story, 40-unit old-law tenement building constructed in 1920, currently owned by Mark Elman and located in New York City's East Village neighborhood. The building has experienced ongoing elevator safety issues from 2020 through 2021, with multiple ECB violations related to inoperative door restrictors and missing monitoring systems that posed safety concerns. These violations resulted in significant penalties totaling $8,500, though one was later dismissed.
More recently, in 2024, there were complaints about unsanitary conditions and pests, though HPD could not gain access to investigate. An active violation regarding the failure to file benchmarking reports was also recorded in 2024. Despite these challenges, the building has maintained a generally positive inspection record for rodent control, consistently passing inspections from 2019 through 2025, and has shown compliant bedbug reporting patterns from 2021-2024, with no reported infestations during these periods.
While there have been multiple elevator-related complaints and violations between 2020 and 2021, recent records show the building has not had any directly reported elevator issues since 2022. The property has undergone regular bedbug and rodent inspections, with consistent compliance and no recorded infestations since 2020. The most recent bedbug report for 2022-2023 shows zero infested units, and all rodent inspections conducted in 2024 and 2025 have passed.
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Building Characteristics
Total units | 40 |
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Year built | 1920 |
Total area | 27500 sq ft |
Floors | 5 |
Tax Abatements | None |
Building Class | OLD LAW TENEMENT |

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