338 East 78th Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

The 6-story, 8-unit Old Law Tenement building at 338 East 78th Street in the Upper East Side, owned by Mark Axinn and constructed in 1910, has experienced several notable maintenance issues in recent years. As of 2023-2024, the building faced an active Department of Buildings violation related to the failure to file the 2022 external low-pressure inspection by the April 2023 deadline.

More concerningly, there has been a persistent rodent issue documented throughout 2023-2024, with multiple inspections showing rat activity and the application of bait across nine separate dates between November 2023 and June 2024, including two compliance inspections that passed but noted rat activity. While the building's bedbug reporting records from 2019 through 2024 show zero incidences of infestation, eradication, or re-infestation, there was a violation notice in April 2024 regarding the filing of the annual bedbug report, suggesting possible administrative oversight in documentation despite the absence of actual infestations.

The building's records also show a permit issued in February 2020 for work under job number 122950716, though the specific nature of this work is not detailed in the available data. The property has demonstrated compliance with regular bedbug reporting requirements since 2019, maintaining a record of no infestations, but the recent rodent prevalence represents the most significant ongoing challenge to resident comfort and building maintenance standards.