124 West 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10024

124 West 81st Street is a 4-story, 10-unit building located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1893 and currently owned by Sophia Magnone. The building has faced several maintenance and safety issues over the past few years, with the most significant cluster of complaints occurring in June 2022, including mold, pest infestations, and various interior maintenance issues (walls, ceilings).

While the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) attempted to inspect these conditions, they were unable to gain access to the affected areas, leading to closed complaints with a recommendation to file new complaints if problems persisted. In 2021, there were multiple violations recorded in Apartment 5, including pest problems, damaged plaster surfaces, inadequate ventilation, and smoke detector issues, though these appear to remain open as of the latest records. The building's maintenance history shows some attention to exterior and safety systems, with violations for failure to file annual boiler and low-pressure inspection reports in 2019-2020 and a bedbug reporting requirement issued in 2023.

Recent inspections have shown improvement in rodent control, with passing results in 2023-2025. External building concerns included a vibration complaint in 2022 and two "Work Without a Permit" complaints in 2021, though no violations were warranted upon inspection. The property has consistently filed annual bedbug reports from 2019 to the present, showing zero infested units in recent filings, and it has passed multiple rodent inspections in recent years.