933 8th Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10019

The five-story, 4-unit old-law tenement building at 933 8th Avenue, owned by Jacob Holzer, is currently facing significant legal and safety challenges stemming from unauthorized modifications. In August 2024, a complaint regarding illegal hotel rooms in residential buildings led to a September inspection that resulted in multiple violations.

These included unauthorized conversion of the third-floor apartment into four additional units, with corresponding penalties totaling $120,000 across several violation notices. Serious safety concerns were documented, including lack of required natural light and ventilation in bedrooms, unauthorized sheetrock installations blocking access between rooms, and deficiencies in fire safety systems such as missing sprinklers and fire alarms. The building's recent history shows a pattern of unauthorized unit modifications and safety code violations, though it has maintained a clean record in terms of pest control.

Bedbug reports over the past six years show zero infestation cases, and rodent inspections from 2010 through 2024 have consistently passed. All six bedbug reports, spanning from 2018 through 2024, documented no infested or eradicated units, and the most recent rodent inspection in October 2024 also passed. While the building has demonstrated good pest management practices, the recent illegal occupancy issues and associated safety code violations represent a significant departure from typical maintenance practices, though records show these violations have been marked as "resolved" as of September 2024, with one violation still listed as "active".