104 Suffolk Street, Manhattan, NY 10002

104 Suffolk Street is a five-story, 20-unit residential building located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, owned by Emmanuel Stark and constructed in 1920. The property has experienced recurring infrastructure challenges, particularly with building-wide heat and hot water systems, as evidenced by multiple emergency complaints from 2024-2025. Recent plumbing issues have also emerged, with a water supply complaint in February 2025 that HPD was unable to inspect.

The building has documented multiple sanitary maintenance concerns between 2022-2024, including inadequate sewage maintenance and plumbing issues, though inspections found no violations in some cases. The property has a history of compliance challenges, including an unresolved violation regarding the failure to file 2022 external low-pressure inspection documentation from April 2023, and two Local Law 188/17 compliance inspections in 2022/2023 where inspectors were unable to gain access. The building has maintained a relatively clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with no reported cases in the past three annual filing periods (2021-2024), and passed multiple rodent inspections throughout 2022-2025, though there were instances of rat activity noted in 2022.

Historical violations from 2020 include several concerning encumbrances such as bikes and paint buckets blocking egress and issues with roof bulkhead ceiling repairs. The property management's response to heat/hot water complaints has shown a pattern of requiring multiple follow-up inspections, with Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) often unable to gain access for verification. While most recent violations and complaints have been addressed or closed, the frequency of emergency complaints suggests ongoing maintenance challenges within this older tenement building.