539 East 13th Street, Manhattan, NY 10009

The four-story, 29-unit tenement building at 539 East 13th Street in the East Village, built in 1900 and currently owned by Luis Romero, has demonstrated a generally good record of maintenance and resident safety over the past few years. Notably, the building has maintained an exceptional track record regarding bedbug management, with no reported infestations in any of the five completed annual reporting periods from 2019 through 2025, including the most recent filing in May 2025 which showed zero infested or eradicated units.

The building has also consistently passed all rodent inspections conducted between 2019 and 2025, with the most recent inspection in April 2025 showing compliance. While there was one recorded Housing Maintenance Code violation in February 2022 regarding the filing of annual bedbug reports, this appears to have been an isolated incident as all subsequent reports have been filed regularly and accurately.

Two complaints were filed in July 2024 regarding general maintenance and retaining wall safety inspection requests, but both were inspected on July 30, 2024, and no violations were warranted in either case. The building's maintenance record suggests proactive management, particularly in matters of pest control and sanitation, though the single bedbug reporting violation in 2022 indicates a temporary lapse in administrative compliance that has since been rectified.