173 East 117th Street, Manhattan, NY 10035

The four-story, seven-unit Old Law Tenement building at 173 East 117th Street in East Harlem, owned by Doron Kessel and constructed in 1910, has demonstrated generally responsible maintenance practices over recent years. Most notably, the building has consistently maintained a zero infestation status in its annual bedbug reports from 2020 through 2024, with no recorded cases of infested or eradicated units.

The building has shown good environmental standards in rodent control, with a majority of inspections in 2023-2025 passing, though there were two failed inspections in 2024 regarding unspecified "Other Reasons." The property has experienced relatively few maintenance issues requiring intervention from city agencies. Documented service requests include a plumbing issue in February 2022 and an unsanitary condition complaint regarding pests in late 2019, neither of which resulted in any violations.

Two violations were recorded in past years: a 2021 citation regarding the annual bedbug report filing process (which appears to have since been resolved) and a 2020 violation for street number visibility (certified resolved in February 2020). Most recently, in 2023, there was a violation issued for failure to file the 2022 external low-pressure inspection, though this violation was dismissed by June 2023. While the building has had a few housing maintenance code violations over the years, they generally appear to have been addressed appropriately, with the property maintaining a good overall record in terms of both pest control and timely resolution of cited issues.