52 East 76th Street, Manhattan, NY 10021

52 East 76th Street is a four-story, five-unit residential building located in Manhattan's Upper East Side, constructed in 1884 and currently owned by Giovanni Zevi Della Porta. The building's most recent concerns involve two open Housing Maintenance Code violations from 2023-2024 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports as required by HPD rules. While there was a rat sighting complaint in March 2023, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's subsequent inspection found no violations.

However, the building has an extensive history of maintaining pest control compliance, with multiple successful rodent inspections recorded between 2010 and 2023, all passing without incidents. The building's maintenance history shows consistent attention to safety requirements, though with some lapses. Significant historical violations from 1989 (now resolved) included various encumbrances in public halls and issues with bulkhead door self-closing mechanisms.

From 1981, there were violations related to the proper posting of building inspection certificates and registration numbers, all of which were certified as resolved in August 2021. A Department of Buildings violation from 2018 regarding elevator service was resolved within a month. The property has undergone several permitted plumbing work projects between March and September 2021, suggesting recent infrastructure maintenance activity. Despite the open bedbug reporting violations, the building has maintained a record of no reported infestations in its annual bedbug reports from 2018 through 2021, as well as regular successful rodent inspections.