629 West 138th Street, Manhattan, NY 10031

629 West 138th Street is a 5-story, 20-unit New Law Tenement building constructed in 1900 in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood, currently owned by Ethan Jamron. The building has experienced recurring heating and hot water issues throughout 2024-2025, with multiple emergency complaints filed from February to March 2025 indicating problems in the entire building.

While some complaints were investigated and resolved, others resulted in HPD being unable to gain access for inspection. The building has one particularly noteworthy violation from February 2024 involving inadequate heat and excessive hot water temperatures (over 130 degrees) in Apartment 23. Other building-wide concerns include four active DOB violations from June 2023 related to failure to file required external low-pressure inspections for the years 2019-2021.

The property has maintained regular rodent inspections, all passing from 2016 through 2025, and shows no bedbug infestation reports in the past five years, with the most recent reports from 2024-2025 indicating zero affected units. The building's maintenance record shows attention to various infrastructure issues, with violations from late 2023 concerning defective self-closing doors in building vestibules and public halls, and broken marble flooring in stairs that have yet to be fully resolved. While there have been multiple heating and hot water-related complaints, the building has demonstrated some responsiveness to repairs, as evidenced by several complaints being resolved through tenant verification of corrections, though the persistent nature of these issues suggests they may not be fully resolved.