306 East 78th Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

306 East 78th Street is a 15-unit, 4-story old law tenement building located in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood, owned by Ozan Yuzen and constructed in 1910. The building has experienced several maintenance issues in recent years, with the most recent being a heat/hot water complaint in November 2024 that was investigated but did not reveal any housing law violations.

Throughout 2024, there were multiple reports of pest-related unsanitary conditions, with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) receiving several complaints between February and May 2024, some of which resulted in violations being issued. The building has current open violations from 2024 for self-closing door issues in apartment 2B and a pest infestation in apartment 1B. The property has a documented history of rodent activity, with multiple bait applications recorded throughout 2023, including several inspections confirming rat activity between January and April 2023.

Previous violations include safety concerns from 2019 requiring the removal of illegal locking devices in apartment 2B and the need for repair of carbon monoxide and smoke detectors in apartment 4B. While the building had mandatory bedbug reporting requirements from 2019 to 2023, showing no documented infestations, the property has consistently required attention to various building maintenance issues, including the need for annual bedbug reports between 2019 and 2021. Recent inspections in both 2019 and 2024 have revealed various safety concerns, including doors that prevent self-closing, though some violations from 2023 have been closed.