14 West 88th Street, Manhattan, NY 10024

14 West 88th Street is a 6-story, 10-unit residential building located in the Upper West Side, built in 1897 and currently owned by Florence Goldsmith. The building has experienced recurring heating and hot water issues, particularly during the 2020-2021 winter season, with six documented complaints between October 2020 and January 2021, three confirmed as emergencies.

These problems persisted into 2021, resulting in an inspection on January 30, 2021, which led to a Class B violation for defective plaster and paint surfaces in apartment 1B. The building has multiple open violations from October 2019 related to safety and maintenance requirements, including issues with door locks, required signage, and heating system notification requirements. The property has shown improvements in recent years, with no bedbug infestations reported since 2020, and the most recent rodent inspections in 2024 and 2023 passed successfully, though there was documented rat activity in April 2019, and bait was applied in that same month.

The building has maintained an active compliance history with regular bedbug reporting, consistently showing zero infested units from 2020 through 2024. While the heating system issues from 2020-2021 represent a significant period of concern, the absence of recent heating complaints, coupled with successful rodent control inspections, suggests some improvement in recent building maintenance. The most recent housing maintenance code issues appear to be primarily administrative in nature, involving notification and signage requirements rather than immediate safety concerns.