235 East 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10028

235 East 81st Street is a 6-story, 22-unit old-law tenement building constructed in 1910 in New York City's Upper East Side, currently owned by Oren Goldstein. The building has experienced recurring heating system issues over the past few years, with multiple emergency complaints regarding heat and hot water problems affecting the entire building, most recently in December 2024, and previously in May and March 2023.

These recurring heating issues suggest an ongoing maintenance concern, though records indicate that heat and hot water were restored in each instance. In late 2023, the building underwent construction work that generated air quality complaints due to dust, with multiple reports in September and October 2023, though the Department of Health found existing complaints were already being addressed. The building's infrastructure maintenance has been subject to scrutiny, with several violations documented regarding the failure to file required External Low Pressure Inspection reports between 2019-2024, though most of these violations were ultimately dismissed.

There were also two complaints about illegal after-hours work in September 2023, though inspections found no violations. On a positive note, the building has maintained a clean record regarding pest management, with no bedbug infestations reported in the past five annual reporting periods (2020-2025), and all rodent inspections from 2017 to 2025 have passed without issue. The most recent building permit activity includes several issued permits in 2023 and 2019 for construction work, though the specific nature of these permits was not detailed in the available records.