68 Orchard Street, Manhattan, NY 10002

68 Orchard Street is a five-story, 13-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Manhattan's Lower East Side, owned by Kenneth Tam and constructed in 1900. The building's recent history (2020-2023) reveals several maintenance issues, including a significant water leak reported in July 2020 and a heat/hot water complaint in April 2020, both of which were addressed without violations being found. There have been ongoing rodent issues, with three rodent-related complaints in 2020, though following inspections from 2022 through 2025, the building has consistently passed rodent inspections.

Multiple Housing Maintenance Code violations were recorded in 2022, including issues with missing safety notices, window guards in public areas, and the need to file annual bedbug reports - all of which were subsequently closed. A notable Department of Buildings environmental violation from 2018 resulted in a $2,500 penalty for filing a false certificate form application. The building's recent bedbug reports (2022-2024) indicate no infestations, with all units remaining bedbug-free.

All rodent inspections since 2022 have shown compliance, with the most recent inspections in 2024 and 2025 passing. The property has had multiple permit issuances since 2019, including several equipment and emergency work permits, with the most recent permits issued in 2022. While there were some access issues noted during inspections in 2020, the overall pattern suggests improved maintenance and compliance with health and safety requirements in recent years, particularly concerning pest control and safety notice requirements, as evidenced by the consistent passing of inspections and lack of recent violations.