2131 1st Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10029

The four-story, six-unit tenement at 2131 1st Avenue in East Harlem, built in 1900 and currently owned by Nicholas Lettire, has experienced several significant events over recent years. The most serious recent incident occurred in March 2019, when multiple heat and hot water outages were reported throughout the entire building, prompting emergency investigations by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), though heat and hot water were reportedly restored during the inspections.

That same month, unauthorized construction work was discovered in a bakery store's backyard area, leading to an environmental violation with a $1,250 penalty for installing two food storage refrigerator units without proper permits. The building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbugs, with no reported infestations or needed eradications in any of the subsequent annual reports from 2019 through 2024, and has passed numerous rodent inspections between 2018 and 2025, including all recent inspections in 2024 and 2025.

A bedbug report violation was issued in 2023 related to the failure to file annual reports, but this appears to be an administrative issue rather than a health or safety concern. The most recent building permit was issued in December 2019 for unspecified work (job number 123896766), but records show no major violations or complaints since the heat outages of 2019, suggesting improved maintenance practices in recent years.