232 West 120th Street, Manhattan, NY 10027

232 West 120th Street is a 5-story, 29-unit Old Law Tenement building in Harlem, constructed in 1910 and currently owned by Paul Moore. The building has experienced recurring maintenance issues throughout 2024 and into 2025, with particularly notable problems in areas of sanitation and structural integrity.

Multiple 311 complaints and Housing Maintenance Code violations have been documented regarding pest infestations, including open violations for mice and roaches in Apartment 2F as of May 2024. Other persistent issues include water leaks (both slow and heavy) affecting various areas including public hall ceilings, mold conditions notably in Apartment 5A, and necessary repairs to ceiling and wall surfaces involving paint and plaster work. The building has undergone extensive rodent control measures in 2025, with multiple bait applications recorded between February and July 2025, while passing a July 2025 rodent inspection.

Additional building history shows some attempts to address after-hours work concerns, with two complaints filed in 2020 and 2023, though inspectors were unable to gain access in one case and found no violations in another. While there have been no documented bedbug infestations in recent years (with reports showing zero affected units for the periods 2021-2022 and 2020-2021), the ongoing pest control efforts in 2025 suggest continued concern about the building's overall maintenance conditions. The property has also experienced intermittent heat and hot water issues, as well as an electrical lighting problem that required emergency attention in March 2024, though most recent inspections in 2024-2025 have shown these specific issues to be resolved.