279 Pleasant Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10029

279 Pleasant Avenue is a five-story, eight-unit residential building constructed in 1900 and currently owned by Sabrina Macpherson. The building has demonstrated active management of pest control issues, particularly regarding bedbugs and rodents.

While the property received three Housing Maintenance Code violations between 2021 and 2023 for failing to submit annual bedbug reports, records show no reported bedbug infestations during the 2022-2023 reporting period, with the most recent filing in March 2024 indicating zero infested or re-infested units. The building has undergone regular rodent inspections, with consistent passing results in 2023-2025, though there were multiple instances of bait application between July 2022 and October 2022, suggesting previous rodent activity. The property has experienced some structural stability concerns, with a building shaking/vibrating complaint filed in March 2022, though inspections found no violations at that time.

A complaint regarding illegal after-hours work was filed in May 2019, which was also closed without warranted violations. The Department of Buildings records indicate an active permit issued in August 2021 for work classified under AL (Alteration), with job number 123727431, though specifics of the work are not detailed in the available data. Throughout recent years, the building has shown compliance and proactive measures in maintaining property standards, particularly in rodent control and reporting requirements, with no recent housing code violations reported since 2023.