82 Mulberry Street, Manhattan, NY 10013

The 5-story, 8-unit tenement building at 82 Mulberry Street in Chinatown, owned by Cheung Yue and constructed in 1910, has experienced several significant maintenance and safety issues over recent years. Most notably, the building has recurring violations related to bedbug reporting requirements from 2021 through 2024 that remain open. A cluster of serious issues emerged in August 2019, primarily affecting Apartment 6 on the 4th floor, including multiple water leaks, deficiencies in electrical systems, and missing safety devices such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

These resulted in multiple Class B violations that remain unresolved as of the current date. More recent concerns include two active violations for failure to file external low-pressure inspections for 2022 and 2023, and a February 2023 Environmental Control Board violation regarding building maintenance issues including spalling lintels and fire escape conditions, though this was subsequently resolved. The building has undergone regular rodent inspections, with the most recent checks in 2023 and 2024 showing compliance, though there were instances of rat activity noted in 2020 and mid-2022.

Three emergency water leak complaints were filed simultaneously in August 2019, along with a non-emergency electrical issue, all of which were closed. While the building has maintained some basic compliance requirements through various inspections, the persistence of the bedbug reporting violations and the 2019 maintenance issues, which remain open, suggest ongoing challenges with maintenance requirements. The property has passed multiple rodent inspections from 2022 to 2025, indicating some improvement in pest management.