299 Broome Street, Manhattan, NY 10002

299 Broome Street is a 7-story, 26-unit Old Law Tenement building located in the Lower East Side, built in 1900 and currently owned by Wing Chau Yeung. The building has experienced recurring heating and hot water issues throughout late 2024 and early 2025, with multiple complaints filed through HPD between November 2024 and February 2025, affecting both individual apartments and the entire building. These complaints, classified as emergencies, were often closed without proper inspections due to access issues.

Most recently, there has been an open electrical power outage complaint filed in June 2025. The building shows several concerning maintenance issues, particularly in Apartment 18, where December 2024 violations were recorded for inadequate heat, pest infestations (both roaches and mice), visible mold, and defective self-closing doors. Additional violations were noted for the boiler room and various building systems, including a violation from 2018 regarding blocked fire escape windows in Apartment 16.

The property has a history of illegal conversion complaints, with multiple inspections in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 showing inspectors were unable to gain access. There is an active investigation as of June 2025 regarding the building's Certificate of Occupancy status. While the building has maintained a passing record in rodent inspections conducted regularly from 2019 through 2025, the repeated heating system failures and maintenance violations, particularly in recent months, suggest ongoing challenges with building systems. Notably, the building has documented no bedbug infestations in the past five reporting periods from 2020 to 2024.