23 Chittenden Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10033

The 6-story, 18-unit residential building at 23 Chittenden Avenue in Washington Heights, owned by Mark Levine, has experienced several notable issues over the past decade, with the most recent concerns primarily centered around elevator safety and maintenance compliance. A significant violation was issued in June 2023 for failure to file the 2018 external low pressure inspection, marking an active violation status, while in 2020, there was a closed violation related to failure to certify correction on an immediately hazardous ECB violation.

The building had an elevator-related complaint in March 2020 regarding a single device with no alternate service, which resulted in Oath Violation being served, and an associated ECB violation for not having the required door lock monitoring installed in the controller, for which a penalty of $1,250 was imposed. More structurally concerning was a November 2018 complaint about building shaking and vibrating, though no violations were warranted at that time, and a subsequent ECB violation related to exterior wall maintenance was documented in the same month, noting cracks in brick masonry on several floors.

The property has maintained a clean record regarding pest issues, with no bedbug infestations reported in the annual inspections between 2018 and 2024, and has consistently passed rodent inspections throughout the past decade, with the most recent inspections in 2024 and 2023 showing compliance. The building's maintenance record shows active attention to violations, as evidenced by the issuance of work permits in 2019 and 2020 related to exterior work (EW), though there remain some unresolved violations from 2019 and 2023 that warrant attention. The property has a long history of passing annual rodent inspections, demonstrating effective pest management practices, and shows no recent evidence of bedbug issues, with all annual reports indicating zero affected units.