258 West 88th Street, Manhattan, NY 10024

258 West 88th Street is a legally converted Class A, 3-story residential building located in Manhattan's Upper West Side, containing 6 units and built in 1884. The building's most pressing current issues involve bedbug reporting compliance violations, with open class A violations documented in 2022, 2023, and 2024 all citing failure to file the required annual bedbug report as mandated by HPD rules. Additionally, there are outstanding DOB violations from 2019 and 2023 regarding unfiled annual boiler and external low pressure inspection reports respectively.

The building has experienced rodent-related concerns, with a rat sighting complaint investigated by the Department of Health in March 2021, which resulted in no violations being found, though the property has maintained consistent passing scores on multiple rodent inspections throughout 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Looking at the building's historical context, 258 West 88th Street has maintained a pattern of various maintenance issues over the years. Significant historical violations include plumbing and infrastructure problems in the mid-1990s, such as issues with an uncapped radiator steam valve in Apartment 1 (1996), water damage in the basement ceiling (1994), and multiple concerns about illegal locks at the property entrances (1996 and 2001).

A defective bell-buzzer system affecting Apartment 7 was documented in 2000. While many of these older violations have been resolved, the building's current outstanding violations primarily relate to regulatory compliance rather than immediate safety concerns. The property has generally performed well on required inspections in recent years, as evidenced by numerous passing grades on rodent inspections and other routine checks, though the repeated bedbug report violations and unfiled inspection reports indicate areas of administrative non-compliance that have persisted over multiple years.