446 West 46th Street, Manhattan, NY 10036

The 5-story tenement building at 446 West 46th Street in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1901 and containing 17 units, is currently facing multiple sanitation-related challenges. As of April 2025, there are open Housing Maintenance Code complaints regarding unsanitary conditions related to pests and garbage/recycling storage, with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) also finding violations requiring follow-up inspections. These recent issues follow a pattern of pest-related concerns, with similar complaints recorded in 2024 and 2025.

The building has several open Housing Maintenance Code violations, including failure to file annual bedbug reports from 2019 through 2024, and a 2022 violation regarding defective self-closing doors in Apartment 8. While the building has maintained generally good rodent inspection results, with most inspections passing in 2023 and 2024, there was a rat activity report in May 2025 and another rodent-related complaint filed in April 2025 that remains open. Historical complaints and violations show a variety of maintenance issues over the years, including plumbing problems in early 2023, cooking gas concerns in mid-2022, and a notable heat/hot water issue in late 2018 that was reportedly resolved.

The building has also faced safety-related violations in 2019 concerning carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, though these were subsequently closed. More recently, there are active violations related to the failure to file external low-pressure inspections for 2023 and 2019, which were issued in June 2023 and September 2024 respectively. The current accumulation of open violations and complaints suggests ongoing challenges with building maintenance and sanitation compliance, despite some recent inspections passing.