32 West 123rd Street, Manhattan, NY 10027

32 West 123rd Street is a 4-story, 1892 Harlem building currently owned by Moujan Vahdat and classified as a HERETOFORE CONVERTED CLASS A property. The building has recently experienced numerous maintenance issues, particularly during February 2025, with multiple emergency complaints regarding heat/hot water systems (including building-wide outages), and open complaints concerning cooking gas problems. In April 2024, significant violations were documented in apartment 4A, including roof leaks, mold conditions, defective plaster surfaces, and inoperable carbon monoxide detectors, though most of these violations were certified as corrected by April 2024.

A newly-active violation from September 2024 regarding the failure to file the 2023 external low-pressure inspection remains unresolved. The building's maintenance history reveals several problematic patterns, including repeated heat and water system failures, with multiple emergency complaints filed between February 2025 and earlier months in 2024. Despite these issues, recent rodent inspections (2025, 2024) have passed, and there's been no bedbug infestation reported in the last five years.

The Department of Buildings has investigated work without permits on several occasions (most recently in 2025 and 2024), though no violations were warranted at the time of inspection. Historical records from 2018-2019 show previous structural concerns, including facade issues with vertical cracks and a large piece of wall breaking at the entrance, along with various environmental code violations. While plumbing permits have been issued between 2018 and 2022, suggesting some ongoing maintenance activity, the frequency and nature of recent complaints indicate persistent infrastructure challenges within the building.