412 East 81st Street, Manhattan, NY 10028

412 East 81st Street is a five-story, 34-unit old law tenement building constructed in 1950 on the Upper East Side, currently owned by Francisco Gutierrez. The building has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues over the past several years, with the most recent complaint in April 2025 affecting the entire building, similar to previous incidents in 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2019.

These issues have typically been resolved quickly, though they represent an ongoing maintenance concern. The building's infrastructure has faced several significant challenges, including a defective boiler system in 2021 that resulted in an ECB violation for multiple safety issues, and elevator service problems in late 2019, which had emergency responses due to the lack of alternate service for the single-device elevator system.

More recent inspections and complaints in 2025 have raised concerns about possible unauthorized work, with multiple complaints of work without permits, though inspectors were unable to gain access on two occasions. Despite these structural and maintenance issues, the building has maintained a clean record with no reported bedbug infestations since 2019, and passed all rodent inspections from 2010 through 2019, indicating generally good pest control practices. The property has demonstrated some responsiveness to complaints, though the recurring nature of heating system issues suggests an ongoing challenge with building systems maintenance.