233 East 34th Street, Manhattan, NY 10016

The property at 233 East 34th Street is a 4-story, 8-unit Old Law Tenement building constructed in 1910 and currently owned by Lav Bauta. The building has experienced several significant safety and compliance issues in recent years, with the most pressing concerns being the failure to maintain required low-pressure inspection filings from 2018 through 2023, and active ECB violations related to illegal occupancy of the ground floor space by a gym, not permitted as per the building's Certificate of Occupancy.

There were also multiple violations in 2021-2022 for failure to comply with previous commissioner's orders, with penalties ranging from $1,250 to $6,250. In early 2020, the building faced an emergency situation requiring temporary fire guard provisions due to an egress issue, though records indicate this was resolved. The building's maintenance record shows regular rodent inspections with consistently passing results from 2016 through 2025, and a clean bedbug report history, with no infestations recorded in the past five reporting periods from 2019 through 2024.

While there have been multiple construction-related complaints filed between 2019 and 2021, most were resolved or dismissed upon inspection, including a Partial Stop Work Order in 2021 and several violations for work done beyond approved plans/permits in 2020. The property has maintained an active status for all bedbug reporting periods since 2021, showing compliance with this particular requirement. However, the ongoing low-pressure inspection violations and illegal occupancy issues represent the most significant current compliance challenges for the property.