53 East 126th Street, Manhattan, NY 10035
The three-story, 11-unit residential building at 53 East 126th Street in East Harlem, owned by Herbert Franklyn, is facing significant ongoing maintenance challenges as of July 2025. Most notably, the building has recurring issues with vermin, as evidenced by multiple rat activity reports and bait applications throughout 2024 and 2025, including compliance inspections in December 2024 and April 2025 that documented rat activity.
The property has also demonstrated persistent non-compliance with bedbug reporting requirements under the Housing Maintenance Code, receiving four consecutive violations from 2021 through 2024 for failing to file the annual bedbug report, which remains open as of April 2024. Additional historical context shows the building experienced a debris-related violation in September 2019, though this complaint was closed the following month.
Given the pattern of recent pest control activity and the open bedbug report violations, the property has demonstrated ongoing challenges with maintaining compliance with basic housing maintenance standards. The building, constructed in 1905, is classified as a "HERETOFORE CONVERTED CLASS B" structure, suggesting it has undergone some form of conversion from its original design, though specific details of this conversion are not provided in the available data.
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Building Characteristics
Total units | 11 |
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Year built | 1905 |
Total area | 2994 sq ft |
Floors | 3 |
Tax Abatements | None |
Building Class | HERETOFORE CONVERTED CLASS B |

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