Howard Hershkovich

Name: Open violations summary
Creator: Openigloo

Site Manager·8 buildings·78 units

3.3

7 reviews

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Review summary

Summarized from anonymous rental reviews on Openigloo.

Tenants note that Howard Hershkovich’s buildings often feature spacious apartments in convenient locations with clean common areas and good pest control. Neighbors are generally friendly, fostering a quiet environment in many buildings. However, management responsiveness is inconsistent—some renters experience slow or inadequate maintenance and poor communication. Heating quality varies, and garbage management has room for improvement. A recurring issue is unexpected disruptions and rent increases, frustrating some residents. While some approve of the owner and recommend living there, others advise more fairness, honesty, and upkeep. Prospective renters should expect good size units but be cautious about maintenance and management reliability.

Reviews

Former tenant·4 months ago

Overall and incredible place to live

Pros

* Large apartments with incredible sun * Super responds to maintenance requests fairly quickly * Common areas kept cleanly * Quiet, nice, and private neighbors * Neighborhood is slowly developing, with new restaurants and shops popping up * Express subway very close

Cons

* Super has a history of turning water off without warning, despite frequent requests for proper warning. Not often, but still very frustrating. * The heat is crazy. Maybe it's just that heat rises, but our apartment on the 4th floor is a sauna during those uncomfortable fall/spring months with mixed weather. * There's, unfortunately, a clear homelessness/mental illness problem in the general area. Very few people, if any, will be aggressive with you, but it can be unsettling

Former tenant·4 months ago

Ridiculous rent for terrible landlord

Pros

Neighbors are great. But that’s pretty much the only thing that my money isn’t going towards. And management doesn’t care, they keep pushing out good renters

Cons

Landlord never responds to service requests and when they do receive a response they are fixed with a bandaid that often breaks days later and is never fixed. They seem to only care about making meaningful changes on units they’ve pushed renters out of so they can charge new renters a ridiculous amount. They will raise your rent by 20% and would by 100% if someone would pay it.

Advice to the owners

I don’t know. Be a person who cares about your renters livelihood and values having consistent renters instead of just looking for the highest bidder.

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Open violations

From past 10 years · Updated 5 days ago

Average violations per unit for this owner or associate is better than the city average.

Owner averageLess than 0.01Violations per unit

NYC average0.81Violations per unit

0Class C

Immediately hazardous

Rodents, pest, mold, inadequate heat or hot water, defective building parts

0Class B

Hazardous

Smoke detector issues, inadequate lighting, no lighting for stairways

0Class A

Non-hazardous

No peephole on a door, no street number on the building, unlawful keeping of animals

0Class I

Missing info

Missing or non-compliant with administrative information orders or filings