224 East 235th Street, Bronx, NY 10470

224 East 235th Street is a three-unit, three-story residential building located in Woodlawn, owned by Joe Meaney and constructed in 1975. The building has consistently failed to comply with Housing Maintenance Code requirements regarding annual bedbug reporting between 2021 and 2024, with violations remaining open as of the most recent inspection in April 2024.

These recurring bedbug report violations, though administrative in nature, indicate potential challenges with compliance to housing regulations. More recently, the property has faced serious concerns regarding unauthorized modifications and illegal parking activities. In June 2024, the building received two significant violations: one for illegal parking in a residential district resulting in a $1,250 penalty, and another for failure to maintain the building in a code-compliant manner, specifically for replacing natural greenery in the front yard with solid red paving bricks to create an unauthorized parking pad, which carries a $625 penalty and remains active.

The illegal parking violations involved two specific vehicles that were parked in front of the property. Prior to these incidents, the building underwent a successful rodent inspection in February 2023, passing the evaluation. While the building has maintained some aspects of basic property maintenance, the ongoing bedbug reporting violations and more recent unauthorized modification issues highlight areas of non-compliance with both housing maintenance and environmental control standards.