134 Orchard Street, Manhattan, NY 10002

134 Orchard Street is a 5-story, 16-unit residential building located in New York City's Lower East Side neighborhood, built in 1900 and currently owned by Steve Croman. The property has experienced persistent heating and hot water issues through 2023 and into early 2025, with multiple complaints filed between January 2025 and November 2023 documenting inadequate heat and hot water throughout the building. A violation was issued in November 2023 regarding an access issue to the building's heating system, which was reportedly locked.

Other notable maintenance concerns include an electrical lighting issue in January 2025, a door/window problem in June 2024, and various violations in Apartment 11 in 2023 related to plaster surfaces, paint conditions, and window repairs. The building has several active violations for failure to file External Low-Pressure Inspections from 2018 to 2023. While the building has passed all recent rodent inspections, there was one instance of rat activity reported in March 2025.

Significantly, the building's heating system has remained problematic, with numerous emergency complaints filed through 2025 about insufficient heat and hot water, though many complaints were duplicates of previously reported issues. The property has maintained a record of having zero bedbug infestations reported in annual filings from 2019 through 2024. Recent inspections in 2022-2025 have generally shown compliance with rodent control regulations, though the single rat activity report from March 2025 is noteworthy. The building's Class C violations from November 2023 included issues with self-closing doors and hot water availability in Apartment 8, as well as a locked boiler room access violation that appears to have been resolved based on subsequent inspections.