45O East 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10028

45O East 81st Street is a 6-story, 34-unit New Law Tenement building located in Manhattan's Upper East Side, constructed in 1910 and currently owned by Laura Lemle. The building has experienced several maintenance issues in recent years, with the most significant cluster of problems occurring in early 2024, involving multiple complaints about cooking gas supply and appliance problems, particularly related to electric/gas ranges. Between February and March 2024, there were at least seven emergency complaints regarding cooking gas issues, and two separate incidents involving appliance problems, all of which were eventually closed.

The building also faced sanitary concerns in March 2024, specifically related to mold, though no violations were issued following inspections by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). During the same period, important violations were recorded regarding self-closing doors in public areas and apartments (specifically in units 20 and 29), as well as issues with a refrigerator in the public hall. The building's history includes earlier maintenance issues in March 2022, when two heating/hot water complaints were filed, though only one resulted in an HPD inspection, which found no violations.

Interestingly, the building has maintained a clean record in terms of bedbug infestations, with no reported cases in the last three filing periods from 2022-2024. Rodent inspections have shown mixed results, with a rat activity report in December 2020 being the only failure among otherwise passing inspections in 2012, 2015, and 2021. The building underwent at least two exterior/waterproofing work projects in 2020 and 2021, according to Department of Buildings permit records, suggesting ongoing maintenance of common areas. The property has had regular bedbug reporting compliance since 2020, consistently showing zero infested units during the reporting periods.