209 West 102nd Street, Manhattan, NY 10025

The five-story Old Law Tenement building at 209 West 102nd Street in Manhattan's Upper West Side, owned by Tomas Aponte, has experienced significant heating infrastructure issues in early 2025, with multiple complaints about lack of heat and hot water throughout February 2025. These complaints, filed between February 5 and February 22, 2025, all noted building-wide problems, with several being duplicates of previous complaints.

While some complaints indicated that heat and hot water had been restored during HPD's attempts to investigate, others resulted in inspection access issues, leading to multiple emergency housing maintenance code complaints being filed. The building does not have any reported bedbug cases in the past seven years (2018-2025), showing a consistent record of zero infestations.

However, there have been ongoing rodent control challenges, particularly noted in 2024-2025, with recent inspections showing rat activity in August 2024 and September 2023, though the most recent inspection in August 2024 was marked as passed. A specific building code violation was documented in December 2022 regarding a door closure mechanism at the building entrance, though records indicate this was certified as corrected in January 2023.