1536 Jesup Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452

The two-story, three-unit residential building at 1536 Jesup Avenue in Mount Eden, currently owned by Benedict Araka, has been in existence since 1935 and is now classified as a Converted Class A building. The property has experienced ongoing maintenance challenges, particularly since December 2021, when multiple non-emergency complaints were filed regarding missing signage, lighting issues, intercom system problems, mailbox conditions, and an emergency ceiling plaster issue - all of which were closed by June 2022.

More recently, the building has accrued several open Housing Maintenance Code violations between 2022 and 2024, including deficiencies in smoke detector requirements, floor signage, wall painting, heating system access, gas leak procedures, building registration display, and housing information notices, particularly affecting the first-story public hall. The property has undergone regular rodent inspections from 2020 through 2025, with one failure noted in October 2024, though this was for "Other Reasons" and the specific nature was not detailed in the records.

Since then, it has passed all subsequent inspections, including the most recent one in April 2025. The building's bedbug reporting history shows a single filing in June 2021 for the period from November 2019 to October 2020, indicating no infested or re-infested units during that timeframe. The most pressing ongoing concern appears to be the open violations related to building safety and maintenance requirements, though many of the previously documented issues from 2021-2022 regarding general maintenance have been resolved.