416 East 13th Street, Manhattan, NY 10009

The 35-unit, six-story tenement building at 416 East 13th Street in the East Village, constructed in 1900 and currently owned by Angela Baljit, has experienced significant maintenance challenges in recent months. Most notably, there are ongoing pest control issues, including multiple reports of rat sightings in 2025 (most recently in June 2025) and several unsanitary condition complaints regarding pests in April 2025 that resulted in violations being issued by HPD. The building has also faced serious heating and hot water problems earlier this year, with multiple emergency complaints in February 2025 regarding building-wide and individual apartment issues, though these were subsequently closed.

A concerning pattern of rodent activity has been documented through multiple inspections and service requests in 2024 and 2025, with the most recent inspections in July 2025 confirming continued rat activity. The building's compliance history shows a mixture of resolved and ongoing issues. A security-related violation from October 2024 regarding an unacceptable electromagnetic locking device at the building entrance remains open, while a previous violation regarding broken sink trap connections in Apartment 2A from 2016 was properly resolved in 2019.

The property has maintained a relatively clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with no reported cases in the past three years (2022-2025), and the building successfully addressed a garbage/recycling storage issue that was reported as open in June 2025. A Department of Buildings complaint from 2020 regarding an alleged illegal conversion resulted in access denial during inspection attempts in 2021. While the building has passed several rodent inspections throughout 2024, the recurring nature of rodent-related complaints and the recent violations indicate ongoing challenges with building maintenance and pest control.