215 East 79th Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

215 East 79th Street is a 17-story, 87-unit Class A residential building located in Manhattan's Upper East Side, constructed in 1947 and currently owned by Paul Rudder. The building has experienced several significant maintenance issues in recent years, with most pressing concerns centered around the building's exterior facade. In 2022, two Environmental Control Board violations were issued for failure to maintain the building's exterior facade, describing conditions including bulged masonry bricks, spalled bricks, and broken glass, with one violation remaining active and a penalty of $1,250 still due.

Additional structural concerns were noted in 2021 with complaints about building shaking and vibrating, which resulted in an oath violation. The building has also faced regulatory compliance challenges, particularly regarding energy benchmarking requirements, with violations issued in late 2022 being dismissed only in early 2025. Furthermore, there are two active building violations from 2019 and 2022 related to failure to file annual boiler inspection reports and unsafe conditions, respectively.

While the building has maintained good pest control records, with no reported instances of bedbug infestations in the past seven years from 2019-2025 and consistently passing rodent inspections, there have been some historical issues with rat activity noted in 2011. The property has undergone multiple permit issuances between 2019 and 2021, indicating ongoing maintenance and repair work, including several emergency work permits. Despite these maintenance concerns, the building's bedbug and rodent inspection records suggest effective pest management practices are currently in place, though the active facade maintenance violations and historical compliance challenges regarding boiler inspections and energy reporting warrant attention.