197 1st Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10003
Located in NYC's East Village, 197 1st Avenue is a 4-story, 4-unit old law tenement building constructed in 1900, currently owned by Kambiz Hakim. The building has experienced several significant maintenance and compliance issues over recent years. Most notably, there have been multiple incidents of non-compliance regarding bedbug reporting, with open violations from 2022-2024 related to failed annual bedbug report submissions.
The property experienced a heat and hot water emergency in February 2022, though conditions were reportedly restored within a week. In the spring of 2020, there was a notable rodent problem, with multiple complaints in March-April 2020, though recent inspections from 2023-2025 have consistently passed rodent inspections. The building has faced serious compliance challenges regarding unauthorized modifications and violations of housing codes. Between 2019-2025, there were multiple illegal conversion complaints, with several follow-up violations served between 2021-2025.
ECB violations from 2019-2024 indicate issues such as failure to maintain building walls, remove garbage bins, and comply with commissioner orders. A significant cluster of ECB violations in July 2021 related to failure to comply with various orders to file corrections. Most recently, in 2024-2025, there was a violation for removing or defacing a written vacate order and an active violation from 2019 regarding work without a permit for illegally adding partitions in Apartment #1 to create an additional bedroom. The building has also faced multiple regular maintenance violations, with some public hall ceilings requiring repairs and repainting, though many of these were resolved by May 2022.
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Building Characteristics
Total units | 4 |
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Year built | 1900 |
Total area | 4546 sq ft |
Floors | 4 |
Tax Abatements | None |
Building Class | OLD LAW TENEMENT |

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- 197 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
- 351 East 12th St, New York, NY 10003
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