151 West 22nd Street, Manhattan, NY 10011

151 West 22nd Street is a 5-story Old Law Single Room Occupancy building in Chelsea, built in 1931 and currently owned by Christina Byrne. The property has experienced several significant maintenance issues in recent years, most notably a heat and hot water outage affecting the entire building in January 2023, which was resolved within two days.

The building has consistently failed to meet bedbug reporting compliance requirements from 2021 through 2023, receiving multiple violations for not filing annual reports as mandated by Housing Maintenance Code §HMC. While recent bedbug reports from 2023-2024 show zero infested units, the building's history of violations raises concern about past infestation management. The building has also faced several other regulatory challenges, including elevator safety issues in 2021 resulting in a $1,250 penalty for improperly maintained door restrictors and failure to file external low-pressure inspection reports between 2020-2021, which were ultimately dismissed.

Multiple violations for not submitting required energy benchmarking reports between 2021-2022 were also dismissed upon challenge. However, more recently, the building has demonstrated improved compliance, with the most recent rodent inspection in October 2024 passing successfully, and the issuance of an approval permit in August 2023 suggests ongoing maintenance and improvements to the building systems. The property's maintenance record shows periodic rodent baiting treatments between 2016-2019, with consistent passing inspection results during this period.