114 Stanton Street, Manhattan, NY 10002

114 Stanton Street is a 5-story, 5-unit Old Law Tenement building located in the Lower East Side, built in 1900 and currently owned by Chun Lee. The building has experienced recurring maintenance challenges over the past few years, with multiple reports of water leaks and mold issues. Most notably, in early 2025, there were two service requests (one classified as emergency) for unsanitary mold conditions and a slow water leak, both of which HPD was unable to inspect despite multiple attempts.

In late 2024, four separate water leak complaints were filed, including both slow and heavy flow leaks, with similar access-related inspection challenges. The building has also faced rodent-related issues, with multiple inspections showing rat activity between 2021 and 2025, though the most recent inspection in June 2025 passed. Violation records indicate a specific mold issue in Apartment 5 documented in November 2024, affecting less than ten square feet at the ceiling and north wall of the second room from the north. The building has maintained a consistent record of filing annual bedbug reports from 2021 through 2025, with no reported infestations or eradications during these periods, and has successfully passed multiple rodent inspections, though there have been several instances of rat activity and compliance checks requiring follow-up inspections.

The building's recent history shows persistent moisture-related issues and a pattern of difficulty in conducting inspections, particularly in 2024 and 2025, which may indicate ongoing challenges with building access during inspection visits. While some improvement is suggested by the most recent rodent inspection passing in June 2025, the frequency of moisture-related complaints and inspection access issues in recent years stands out as a notable recurring concern in the building's maintenance record. The property has shown compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, consistently showing zero infested units or infestations across all reporting periods between 2021 and 2025. An illegal conversion complaint was filed in October 2024, though inspection attempts were unsuccessful, and this matter was marked closed in January 2025.