253 West 136th Street, Manhattan, NY 10030

253 West 136th Street is a three-story, five-unit residential building located in Harlem, owned by Salvatore D'avola and constructed in 1910. The property has consistently faced regulatory challenges regarding building maintenance compliance, particularly with bedbug reporting requirements, having received four consecutive Housing Maintenance Code violations between 2021 and 2024 for failing to file the mandatory annual bedbug reports.

Additionally, there is an ongoing concern regarding the building's external low-pressure system inspections, with multiple active violations for failure to file required inspection reports between 2018 and 2023. Most recently, a violation was issued in September 2024 for not filing the 2023 external low-pressure inspection.

The building has experienced several notable events in recent years, including a building shaking complaint in January 2025, which resulted in an Oath Violation being served. While the property has maintained compliance with rodent inspections, passing all but one in 2023 (which failed for other reasons), the building's overall maintenance record shows a concerning pattern of unaddressed violations, particularly regarding required safety inspections and reporting requirements. A review of the bedbug reporting history shows the building reported no infestations for the period of November 2018 to October 2019, though this was prior to the emergence of the bedbug reporting violations that would follow in subsequent years.