220 East 78th Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

220 East 78th Street is a 5-story, 28-unit residential building located in Manhattan's Upper East Side, built in 1910 and currently owned by Ahron Freidus. The property has experienced recurring heating and hot water issues throughout late 2024 and early 2025, with multiple emergency complaints filed between December 2024 and February 2025, some of which required HPD inspections and others where access could not be gained. These heating system problems appear to be ongoing, as evidenced by three separate complaints filed in February 2025 alone.

The building has also faced various maintenance challenges, including a November 2024 violation requiring repair of defective self-closing doors at the building entrance, and multiple violations observed during August 2024 affecting Apartment 2 related to smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector issues, as well as a roach infestation that required remediation. Historical records show intermittent pest control concerns, with the building reporting rodent activity in 2020 and 2019, though more recent inspections have generally passed. There were also two cases of bedbug infestations reported in 2018 and one in 2019, but subsequent annual reports show no infestations since then.

The building underwent several inspections and received multiple permits for electrical work between 2019-2020, and has faced issues with construction compliance in the past, including a 2019 violation for work without proper permits. Environmental control board violations from 2018-2019 indicate problems with construction safety signage and a masonry issue on the west parapet wall, though these were resolved. The property has maintained regular bedbug reporting compliance from 2019 through 2024, consistently showing zero infested units in recent years.