235 West 63rd Street, Manhattan, NY 10023

235 West 63rd Street is an 8-story, 47-unit New Law tenement building located in the Upper West Side, built in 1907 and currently owned by Elchanan Mordechai. The property has experienced multiple maintenance issues in recent months, with a notable cluster of complaints from May 2025 involving water leaks, mold, and paint/plaster problems affecting walls and ceilings.

These complaints, which included six instances of paint/plaster issues and two water leak reports, resulted in HPD inspections that were unable to be completed. The building's elevator service has been a persistent concern, with multiple complaints recorded between 2019 and 2024 about single-device operation and lack of alternate service, though inspections found no violations at those times. Earlier violations show a history of maintenance challenges, including a 2022 violation for failure to maintain exterior building walls with cracked water table issues noted at the seventh floor.

There have been documented problems with mold and interior maintenance in various apartments, including violations in 2021 (Apartment 2E) related to mold conditions and paint requirements. While there was one reported case of bedbugs in 2020-2021, subsequent annual reports through 2024 show no infestations. The building has passed recent rodent inspections (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), with only one initial rat activity report in April 2022, and has mostly resolved historical violations related to facade maintenance while still having some active violation regarding the critical examination report requirements from 2022.