212 West 133rd Street, Manhattan, NY 10030

212 West 133rd Street is a five-story, 40-unit old law tenement building located in Harlem, built in 1910 and currently owned by Larry Hirschfield. The building has experienced several significant maintenance issues in 2025, with multiple complaints and violations emerging between March and June 2025, including ventilation system violations, mold issues, and plumbing problems affecting both toilets and radiators.

Recent emergency housing maintenance code complaints from June 2025 indicate ongoing heat and hot water problems affecting the entire building. The property has also been subject to multiple elevator-related complaints, with one open complaint from March 2025 regarding single device operation and no alternate service. The building has an established history of maintenance challenges, with violations documented in 2024 including issues with building entrance doors, carbon monoxide detectors, fire escape accessibility, and various apartment-specific problems in Unit 5D (including pest control, plumbing, and cabinet issues).

While rodent inspections have generally passed in recent years (2022-2025), there were periods of rat activity noted in 2019-2020. The property has multiple active Department of Buildings violations related to failure to file external low pressure inspections between 2019-2023, and a bedbug infestation was reported in late 2024 with some units affected. Recent complaints regarding doors, windows, intercoms, floors, and unsanitary conditions have generally resulted in HPD inspections, with some violations issued and others deemed not to violate housing laws.