420 East 173rd Street, Bronx, NY 10457

The three-story, six-unit residential building at 420 East 173rd Street in Claremont Village, owned by 420 East 173 LLC, was constructed in 1910 as an old law tenement. The building's documented history shows several maintenance issues, with a significant cluster of complaints in May 2022 involving various systems including plumbing (bathtub/shower), electrical (outlet/switch), safety (carbon monoxide detector and window guard), and structural elements (flooring/stairs, paint/plaster).

While these complaints were investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and no violations were issued, they represent multiple areas requiring attention. The building faced several important compliance challenges, including two active Department of Buildings violations as of September 2024 and June 2023 related to failure to file external low pressure inspections for 2018 and 2023.

A notice of violation was issued in early 2022 regarding a broken building entrance door lock in apartment 3. However, there has been positive progress in pest management, with the building maintaining a record of no bedbug infestations reported in annual filings since 2022, and recent rodent inspections in 2022 and 2018 showing successful compliance, though there was evidence of rat activity in several 2017 inspections requiring bait applications. The building's maintenance history shows regular attention to economic housing regulations, with violations being addressed and closed promptly, including two bedbug report violations from 2021-2022 that were certified as resolved.