1488 2nd Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10075

The four-story, six-unit tenement building at 1488 2nd Avenue, owned by Salvatore Gaudio and constructed in 1910, has experienced several notable maintenance issues in recent years. The most significant cluster of problems occurred between late 2021 and mid-2022, when there were multiple complaints regarding plumbing and sewage issues, particularly involving toilets, with emergency housing maintenance complaints filed between December 2021 and February 2022. While these complaints were ultimately closed, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) was unable to gain access to inspect many of the reported conditions.

The building has also faced some safety compliance issues, including a violation in April 2023 for failing to file the 2022 external low pressure inspection report, which remains active as of the current date. In terms of general building conditions, 1488 2nd Avenue has shown relatively consistent rodent control compliance, passing multiple inspections between 2011 and 2023, with only one failure noted in April 2017. The property has maintained an active bedbug reporting record from 2019 through 2023, showing no reported infestations in any unit during the periods covered by the reports.

While there was a fire escape obstruction violation issued in June 2022 regarding an awning, and two separate violations in 2023 related to bedbug reporting, these issues have been resolved or closed. The building's maintenance history suggests ongoing challenges with plumbing infrastructure, particularly in early 2022, though more recent years show no similar clusters of complaints. The most recent HPD inspection in March 2023 resulted in a bedbug reporting violation, though previous filings since 2019 have consistently reported zero infested units.