320 West 17th Street, Manhattan, NY 10011

320 West 17th Street is a 5-story, 20-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Chelsea and owned by Kevin Poll. Built in 1920, this property has experienced recurring maintenance challenges over recent years, with particularly notable issues regarding building-wide heat and hot water systems. In 2022 alone, there were two significant incidents (in March and October) involving both apartment-specific and entire-building heat/hot water problems, though in both cases, these issues were reportedly resolved by HPD following tenant verification.

The building has also faced pest-related challenges, with a documented rodent infestation in apartment 3FE in June 2020 that required abatement, and more recent evidence of persistent rodent activity, including failed compliance inspections in April 2025 and October 2024. Despite these ongoing pest control efforts, including multiple bait applications in 2025 and 2022, rodent activity remains an issue. The property has been diligent in its bedbug reporting, with no infestations or eradications reported in any of the ten required filings from 2019 through 2024.

An inspection in 2022 revealed a failure to file the annual Bedbug Report, though this violation appears to have been rectified in subsequent years, with all filings showing zero infested units. While the building has had multiple 311 complaints and Housing Maintenance Code violations over the years, most have been promptly addressed and closed, including a pest-related violation in June 2020 and two heat-related incidents in 2022. The most recent inspections indicate ongoing rodent control efforts, though the presence of rat activity remains a concern based on recent compliance inspection results.