255 West 70th Street, Manhattan, NY 10023

The 8-unit, 3-story building at 255 West 70th Street in New York City's Upper West Side, owned by Edward Morgan, has experienced several significant issues over recent years. Most notably, there is a recurring pattern of open Class A Housing Maintenance Code violations from 2021 to 2024 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports, though these violations also appear in previous years from 2015 to 2020.

In 2019, the building faced serious challenges when multiple Department of Building (DOB) Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations were issued, primarily related to unsafe occupancy conditions including the lack of required safety systems (such as sprinklers and fire alarms), inadequate means of egress, and unauthorized alterations that created unsafe furnished rooms with multiple beds. These violations resulted in penalties totaling $8,812, though all were subsequently resolved.

More recent violations indicate ongoing regulatory compliance issues, with active violations issued in 2022-2023 for failure to file mandatory external low-pressure inspections from 2018 through 2023, though no penalties are listed. The building has maintained a generally positive record regarding rodent control, passing inspections in both 2023 and 2024, though there was one instance of noted rat activity in 2022. The property's inspection history shows multiple required safety inspections and reports that appear to have been consistently filed over the years, including records related to boiler inspections and rodent inspections, suggesting some level of ongoing maintenance and compliance efforts.