244 West 121st Street, Manhattan, NY 10027

The four-story, three-unit building at 244 West 121st Street in Harlem, owned by Jayem 121 Realty LLC, has exhibited recurring issues with heat and hot water availability over the past five years.

Most recently, in February 2025, a complaint was filed regarding lack of heat or hot water in one apartment, but inspectors from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) were unable to gain access to verify the conditions. This followed a pattern of similar complaints between late 2020 and early 2021, where tenants reported heat and hot water outages on multiple occasions, though in each instance the HPD was informed that service had been restored by the time of their response.

The documented complaints in November 2020 included both apartment-specific and entire-building issues, all classified as emergency situations under the Housing Maintenance Code. While the building's heat and hot water system appears to have recovered from each incident based on tenant reports at the time, the recurrence of these issues suggests an ongoing concern with the building's heating infrastructure that has persisted over multiple years and different heating seasons.