510 West 136th Street, Manhattan, NY 10031

510 West 136th Street is a 6-story, 18-unit converted New Law tenement built in 1905 and currently owned by Larry Hirschfield. The building has experienced persistent heat and hot water issues in early 2025, with multiple emergency complaints filed between February and March 2025, including both apartment-specific and building-wide outages.

These complaints were primarily addressed through HPD inspections, though access issues sometimes hindered full evaluations. The property has also faced recurring appliance-related concerns, particularly with electric/gas ranges, with several complaints between December 2024 and March 2025, most of which were not able to be fully inspected due to access problems, though one inspection in March 2025 found no housing law violations. Recent inspections and violations have revealed several safety concerns, including active rat activity noted in multiple rodent inspections throughout 2024-2025, and a violation for obstructed fire escape egress issued in January 2024.

Notably, there were violations found in 2024 regarding a lack of adequate heat in apartment 2C and defective smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in apartment 6B, though these were subsequently certified as corrected. The building maintains a relatively clean bedbug record, with no reported cases in the past three years, and the latest bedbug reports from 2024-2025 indicate zero infested units. An outstanding violation from September 2024 regarding failure to file the 2023 external low-pressure inspection remains active as of my last data update in October 2023.