238 East 58th Street, Manhattan, NY 10022

238 East 58th Street is a 6-story, 22-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Midtown Manhattan and owned by Ramiel Benyehuda. The building has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues in 2025, with multiple documented complaints and service requests from March 3-15 indicating this as a building-wide problem.

These complaints follow a pattern of similar issues in previous years, including multiple heat/hot water complaints in December 2023. The building has also faced water-related maintenance challenges, with slow leak complaints recorded in 2024 and 2024, as well as a plumbing issue involving the bathtub/shower. More recent developments include active Housing Maintenance Code violations from October 2024, which remain open and relate to refuse accumulation and maintenance issues in the East Court area, as well as missing or defective doors and signage on the first story.

The Department of Buildings has recorded two notable complaints - one regarding building stability in December 2024 and another about unauthorized work in 2021, though access for inspection was not granted in both cases. While the building has maintained a clean record for bedbug infestations since 2019, with zero cases reported in the most recent filings, there was one instance of rat activity noted in 2016, though subsequent inspections have consistently passed. The building's management has also failed to file the required FISP Cycle 9C Technical Report by the 2024 deadline, resulting in an active violation.