143 West 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10024

This four-story, three-unit building at 143 West 81st Street in Manhattan's Upper West Side, owned by Heath Buzin, was constructed in 1887 and has been previously converted to a Class A structure. The building has experienced some notable maintenance issues in recent years, most significantly a heat and hot water complaint in January 2024 that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development could not verify due to inability to access the premises.

While the building has maintained a regular schedule of bedbug reporting, showing zero infestations in the past five reporting periods from 2019 through 2024, it has had recurring rodent activity concerns. The most recent rodent inspections in 2024 and 2023 passed, following a pattern of successful compliance in prior years, though there were documented instances of rat activity in April 2022 and September 2020.

The building's violation history includes two consecutive Housing Maintenance Code violations in February 2022 and April 2024 related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports, though these violations were subsequently closed. The property has generally maintained compliance with housing regulations as evidenced by numerous passed inspections between 2017 and 2024, including multiple successful rodent inspections and timely bedbug report filings (most recently in December 2024). The building's age and these maintenance issues suggest periodic challenges maintaining resident comfort, though the absence of recent documented infestations and most recent rodent inspections passing indicates some improvement in recent years.