1572 2nd Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10028

The four-story, seven-unit Old Law Tenement building at 1572 2nd Avenue in the Upper East Side, owned by Anderson Santos, has experienced significant recurring issues with heat and hot water systems over the past few years. Most recently, in early 2025, there were complaints about building-wide heating issues that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) could not fully investigate due to access problems.

This followed a pattern of heating system complaints throughout 2023-2025, with several incidents reported as building-wide or apartment-specific, though inspections often encountered access issues or were determined to be unresolved conditions requiring new complaints to be filed. The building also has an active ECB violation from April 2024 regarding an unregistered Weil McLain gas-fired boiler, with an associated penalty of $625, and a related boiler complaint from March 2025 that resulted in an inspector being unable to gain access for verification. Additional concerns include a potential illegal conversion issue reported in January 2025, which resulted in an Oath Violation, and an active violation for failing to file the 2021 external low pressure inspection as of June 2023.

The building's bedbug reporting history shows one instance of infestation in 2022-2023, though subsequent reports in 2023-2024 show no further cases. Remarkably, the building has maintained a consistent record of passing rodent inspections between 2010 and 2019, suggesting relatively good pest control management in this regard. Multiple permits for work have been issued between 2020 and 2022 under various classifications, indicating ongoing maintenance or improvement projects, though specific details on these works are not provided in the available data.