Licensed plumbers for the East Village's tenements, HDFC co-ops, bars and restaurants, from the Bowery to Avenue D.
Confidential · Emergencies get a call back within minutes, everything else the same day
NYC Plumber Co provides licensed plumbing repair, installation and 24/7 emergency service throughout the East Village and Alphabet City, from Houston Street to 14th Street and from the Bowery to the East River. Walk-up rentals, HDFC and market-rate co-ops, new condos, and the densest strip of bars and restaurants in Manhattan, with a written price before the work starts. Call (929) 717-4784 or request a free estimate.
The East Village is tenement country. Old Law and New Law buildings from the 1880s through the 1920s, five and six stories, four apartments to a floor, one stack per line, a boiler in the cellar and a roof tank on the taller ones. The bathrooms were added inside the apartments in the 1960s and 70s, often by the landlord's handyman, and a lot of that plumbing is still in the walls. Bathtubs in kitchens are mostly gone, and the pipes that served them are usually still in the wall.
Mixed in are the HDFC co-ops - buildings the city took over in the 1970s and sold to their tenants - where a volunteer board manages a 100-year-old plumbing system on a tight budget and needs a plumber who explains what is urgent and what can wait. And there is the new construction on the avenues and the Bowery, full-service buildings with engineered systems and management companies that want paperwork.
NYC Plumber Co works across all of it. Our plumbers know a Second Avenue tenement stack from a Tompkins Square co-op's riser, and we know why the top floor on East 7th Street gets a trickle at 8 AM. We also know the neighborhood's history with gas. The 2015 explosion on Second Avenue came from an illegally tapped line, and the inspection laws the whole city lives under now were written because of it. We take gas work here seriously, because the East Village learned what happens when someone does not.
Avenue C and Avenue D sit in the flood zone. Sandy came up to Avenue B in places, filled cellars and drowned boilers. Backwater valves, raised equipment and rebuilt sewer connections followed in some buildings and not in others.
St. Marks Place, Avenue A, Second Avenue and the side streets are lined with kitchens and bars that run until 4 AM. Grease trap service, gas and drain work happen in the morning window before deliveries. We know the window.
Most calls come from whoever runs the building. We work with small landlords who own one tenement, management companies with a dozen, and HDFC boards who need every repair explained and priced in writing. Certificates of insurance go out before the visit.
A sixth-floor apartment with a burst pipe and a riser valve in the cellar means a plumber running stairs. We carry what we need on the first trip and we know where tenement shutoffs hide.
Tenement boilers and HPD violations go together every winter. Buildings that get a September boiler service and a radiator vent tune-up mostly stay off the complaint list.
Boiler repair is the winter business of the East Village. One-pipe steam in almost every tenement, boilers of every age, radiator vents that have not been replaced since the 1990s, top floors that never get warm. Low-water cutoffs, pressuretrols, gas valves, main vents and the near-boiler piping that a previous contractor got wrong.
Drain cleaning for kitchen stacks with a century of grease, tub drains through lead traps, and the bar and restaurant lines that back up on Saturday night. Cable, jetter and camera, with a straight answer about whether the line is a habit problem or a pipe problem.
Gas line repair and Local Law 152 inspections across the neighborhood's walk-ups, plus commercial kitchen gas for the restaurants. Leak detection, pressure tests, LAA filings and Con Edison restoration handled start to finish. Natural gas alarms for Local Law 157 supplied and installed on any visit.
Emergency plumbing 24 hours a day for burst pipes in exterior-wall kitchens, sewer backups on the low blocks, no heat in January and no hot water in a building where the landlord is required to provide it.
Water heater repair and water heater installation for apartments with individual heaters in kitchen closets, buildings with central hot water off the boiler, and bars with commercial units.
Sewer line repair along the low ground east of Avenue B, where the house connection meets a combined sewer that surcharges in every heavy rain. Camera, DEP permits, replacement and backwater valves.
Pipe repair for galvanized risers, cast iron stacks, lead bends, and the layers of copper and PEX from fifty years of bathroom work in tenement walls.
Leak detection between apartments that share a wet wall, with instruments first and a report the landlord or the board can use.
Toilet repair and faucet and fixture installation for apartments, co-op renovations and bar restrooms, including the low-pressure top floors.
Commercial plumbing for bars, restaurants, cafes and the retail along St. Marks and the avenues, with maintenance agreements for owners with more than one location.
East Village work is landlords, boards and bar owners who need a plumber who shows up, explains the problem and does not pad the invoice. The process is built for that.
Call (929) 717-4784 or send the form. Tell us the building and what it is doing. A licensed plumber comes in the window, diagnoses, explains and gives you a written price. The work gets done, tested and cleaned up. Filings and inspections, when the job needs them, are handled by us.
Whether you manage a tenement on East 10th Street, sit on an HDFC board near Tompkins Square, or own a bar on Avenue A, call NYC Plumber Co at (929) 717-4784 or request your free estimate.
24/7 emergency plumbers, any hour, any borough.
Snaking, hydro jetting and camera inspection.
Camera diagnosis, lining and replacement with DEP permits.
Gas, electric and tankless repairs, same day.
Sized, vented and filed with DOB.
Steam and hot water boilers, gas and oil.
Leak repair, pressure tests, Local Law 152 inspections.
Hidden leaks located with instruments, not demolition.
Burst, frozen and corroded pipes, repiping.
Running, clogged and leaking toilets, replacements.
Faucets, showers, sinks, tubs, disposals.
Restaurants, offices, buildings, compliance.