442 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10024

442 Amsterdam Avenue is a five-story, 12-unit old law tenement building located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1894 and owned by Michael Padernacht. The building has maintained a generally good safety record, with consistent passing results on rodent inspections over the past seven years (2018-2025). Recent concerns include a current Department of Health and Mental Hygiene investigation (as of June 2025) regarding a food establishment/pet/animal complaint, marking the building's first health inspection in over a year.

The building experienced multiple maintenance issues in early 2024, with a cluster of complaints filed between December 2023 and January 2024 concerning paint/plaster issues on walls and ceilings, floor conditions, and mold problems. These complaints, which received varying urgency classifications from non-emergency to immediate emergency, were all investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and no violations were ultimately issued. Three consecutive annual bedbug reports (2019-2023) showed no infestation during the periods reported, though an HPD violation for failure to file the annual bedbug report was issued in March 2022, which was later certified as resolved in June 2023.

The building's only recorded egress-related complaint (regarding locked/blocked/ improper/no secondary means) from October 2021 resulted in no violations being warranted at the time of inspection. While the property has had its share of maintenance issues, the absence of formal violations from various inspections and consistent rodent control passing rates suggest active management of building conditions. The recent health complaint remains the only current open issue as of mid-2025.