79 Mac Dougal Street, Manhattan, NY 10012

79 Mac Dougal Street is a 7-story, 38-unit New Law tenement building located in Greenwich Village, built in 1910 and currently owned by Isaac Benishai. The building has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues, with multiple emergency complaints logged between 2023 and 2024, particularly affecting the entire building in April 2023, October 2023, and various instances in early 2024.

More recently, in March 2024, there was a complaint regarding unsanitary garbage/recycling storage conditions, though no violations were issued following inspections. The most significant recent concern appears to be a pattern of boiler-related complaints between April and June 2025, with ten separate complaints about defective/inoperative/no permit issues, though inspections consistently found no violations warranted at the time. The building has generally maintained good pest control standards, with regular rodent inspections passing between 2011 and 2025, and no bedbug infestations reported in the past eight years.

Housing Maintenance Code violations from 2023-2024 were primarily related to door and wall maintenance, including issues with self-closing doors in the entrance and public hall areas, as well as repair requirements for various surfaces. The building's management has shown responsiveness to most complaints, though there have been several instances where inspectors were unable to gain access to units for verification of reported issues. While the property has had recurring maintenance issues, particularly with heating systems, it has consistently passed rodent inspections and maintained an active bedbug prevention program with no reported incidents.