1338 Manor Avenue, Bronx, NY 10472

1338 Manor Avenue is a 4-story, 17-unit New Law Tenement building constructed in 1930 in the Parkchester neighborhood and currently owned by Mark Engel. The building has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues, with four documented complaints between December 2024 and January 2025, including both apartment-specific and entire-building outages, all of which were resolved upon HPD inspection.

In 2021, the property faced multiple maintenance challenges, including violations related to mold (in apartments 2C and 3D), fire safety concerns (including defective fire egress features and inoperable smoke detectors in apartment 2C), and problems requiring floor repairs. Notably, there were also pest-related issues documented in May 2021, with violations issued for unsanitary conditions. While the building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations over the past several years, with zero reported cases from 2019 to present, it experienced a health department inspection in December 2022 related to unsanitary animal conditions.

Recent housing maintenance records indicate some improvement, with no new bedbug reports since 2020-2021 and a successful rodent inspection in February 2023, though a compliance inspection in December 2022 resulted in a failure for unspecified reasons. The building's documentation shows a history of addressing maintenance issues promptly, with most complaints being closed after inspections confirmed resolution of the reported problems, though some violations from 2021 remain open regarding plaster repair and painting requirements. The frequency of heat-related complaints over the past two years, combined with the building's age, suggests that mechanical systems and infrastructure may require continued monitoring.