216 East 29th Street, Manhattan, NY 10016

216 East 29th Street is a 54-unit, 5-story residential building located in Kips Bay, built in 1960 and currently owned by Shana Sakow. The property has experienced several concerning issues in recent years, particularly regarding building maintenance and safety compliance. Between 2023 and 2025, multiple violations have been documented related to facade maintenance, including spalling bricks and cracked masonry on both the north and east elevations, with active violations as recent as February 2025.

The building's facade inspection cycle reports have generated penalties due to failures to submit required documentation, with active violations from 2018 through 2022 totaling significant fines. There have also been safety concerns related to egress obstruction, as evidenced by a September 2024 violation involving flower pots and a stove blocking the five-story escape route, for which a penalty of $312 was imposed. The building has had some recent heating system issues, with heat and hot water complaints filed in December 2022, though these were eventually investigated and closed with no violations issued.

Notably, the property has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with no reported cases in the past seven years (2018-2025), and has consistently passed rodent inspections over the past 15 years, most recently in April 2025. The building's elevator system appears to have required attention over the years, with violations related to inspection failures in 2019-2020, though these specific issues are now resolved. While there have been various complaints and violations documented through the years, including some related to construction work and safety hazards, many of these have been addressed through inspections and corrections, with the exception of several active facade-related violations that remain open as of 2025.