153 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10016

153 Madison Avenue is a 12-story, 118-unit commercial building constructed in 1912 and currently owned by Kathleen Kahng. The building has experienced several significant maintenance issues over the past five years, including a building-wide heat and hot water outage in March 2019, pest-related concerns in September 2022 that resulted in an HPD inspection (though access was not granted), and multiple tenant safety inspections between 2019-2021 that showed no violations at the time of inspection. The property generated three separate ECB violations between 2018-2021, with one in 2020 relating to failure to provide required 72-hour notification for work being performed, and another in 2021 regarding non-compliance with a Commissioner's order.

The building's bedbug reporting history shows minimal issues, with only one reported infestation in 2021-2022, and none in the most recent three reporting periods (2022-2024). Housing Maintenance Code violations from 2022 included a failure to file the required annual bedbug report. The property has consistently passed rodent inspections conducted annually from 2010-2012, indicating good pest control in this area.

Multiple permits for work on the property have been issued between 2018-2020, showing regular maintenance and upkeep of building systems. The most recent bedbug filings (2023-2024) show zero infested or re-infested units, suggesting successful management of this particular issue in recent years. While the building has faced various maintenance challenges, many recent inspections have shown no violations at the time of inspection, though it's worth noting that some complaints were closed without access being granted for follow-up inspections.