119 East 23rd Street, Manhattan, NY 10010

119 East 23rd Street is a 21-story, 93-unit residential condominium building located in the Flatiron District, completed in 2004 and currently owned by Crossing 23rd Condominium. The building has experienced several significant incidents related to basic utilities and safety requirements over the past several years. There were two documented instances of heat and hot water outages affecting the entire building in 2018 (October and December), though both issues were resolved promptly. More recently, in 2020-2021, the building underwent inspections for tenant safety and COVID-19 compliance, with no violations noted.

However, an extensive set of violations was recorded in October 2018 related to safety signage requirements, including failure to properly display smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector notices, heating system maintenance information, and gas leak procedures - most of these violations were classified as Class A, representing serious concerns. The building has maintained a clean record with regard to pest control, with no reported bedbug infestations in the past five years (2019-2024), and historical rodent inspections show improvement, with the last recorded violation being in 2014. Recent building permit activity (2018-2020) shows regular maintenance and improvements, including multiple issued permits for various projects. The property has also experienced two isolated food poisoning complaints in 2022, which were investigated and determined to be non-recurring incidents.

While the building management has generally responded to issues when reported, the 2018 safety violation cluster suggests there was a period of insufficient attention to maintenance of required safety signage, though there is no record of these violations being re-inspected or closed. The bedbug inspection reports from 2019-2024 consistently show zero infested units, indicating effective pest management practices. The building successfully passed the most recent tenant safety inspections in 2020, and the most recent bedbug reports from 2024 similarly show no infestations. While there have been periodic heat and hot water issues in the past, there have been no such complaints recorded in recent years. The combination of regular maintenance permits issued, along with the absence of recent major violations or pest infestations, suggests improved building conditions over the past few years, though the persistent open violations related to safety signage from 2018 remain an unusual historical note.