24 East Broadway, Manhattan, NY 10002

24 East Broadway is a 5-story, 20-unit residential building constructed in 1900, currently owned by Junhong Zhang and located in Chinatown. The building has experienced several maintenance and safety issues over the past years, with the most significant cluster of violations occurring in 2018 when multiple apartments (3, 4, 7, and 8) had various code violations including damaged plaster surfaces, inadequate bathroom facilities, and security concerns such as defective locks on fire escape doors.

Notably, there were issues with unauthorized occupancy, as three violations from September 2018 documented the illegal operation of a florist business in the cellar space, which was not permitted for the 16-unit building configuration. More recent concerns include a 2023 violation for failure to file the 2022 external low-pressure inspection, though the building has maintained a consistent record of passing annual rodent inspections since 2019, with the most recent inspection in March 2025. The building has shown some improvements in recent years, particularly regarding pest control measures, with bedbug reports consistently showing zero infested units between 2020 and the present.

Housing maintenance code violations for bedbug reporting compliance were issued in 2022 and 2023, though these appear to have been resolved based on subsequent filings. The property has undergone various permitted works, with several permits issued in 2018-2019 for electrical and plumbing work. Regular maintenance appears to have improved overall conditions, as evidenced by recent successful rodent inspections and the absence of recent bedbug infestations, though the open violations from 2018 regarding multiple apartments' maintenance issues and security concerns remain notable points of historical concern.