39 Carmine Street, Manhattan, NY 10014

39 Carmine Street is a 5-story, 20-unit Old Law Tenement building located in the West Village, dating back to 1873 and currently owned by Pamela Sendowski. The property has experienced persistent heating and hot water issues throughout 2024-2025, with multiple building-wide and apartment-specific complaints filed between December 2024 and March 2025, many involving emergency situations. These complaints, while often quickly addressed by HPD, suggest ongoing challenges with the building's heating system.

The building is currently facing an active Department of Buildings Environmental Control Board violation from July 2023 concerning a fireplace in apartment 3D that was found to be in disrepair with minor step cracks and a blocked flue liner. Two complaints regarding building shaking/vibration and debris danger were filed in July 2023, though no violations were found upon inspection. The building's maintenance history shows several safety-related issues being addressed, including the removal of devices preventing self-closing doors at both the building entrance and vestibule doors in Dec 2024, and past violations related to mold and lighting in apartment 3B in 2018.

While the building has maintained a clean record for bedbugs (with no reported infestations in the past three years) and has passed recent rodent inspections (July 2024), there were multiple failures noted in 2022 regarding rodent activity. The property has a pattern of heat/hot water complaints that suggests this remains a significant maintenance challenge, with most recent complaints occurring in March 2025. The building's age and history show typical issues found in older tenement buildings, though the concentration of heating-related complaints in recent months is particularly notable.