1819 Hunt Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462

1819 Hunt Avenue is a 3-unit, 3-story residential building located in the Van Nest neighborhood, owned by Juan Ortiz and constructed in 2000. The property has experienced recurring issues with compliance to Housing Maintenance Code requirements over the past several years, most notably failing to file the required annual bedbug reports with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) in 2021, 2022, 2023, and most recently in 2024, creating an ongoing pattern of noncompliance with mandated pest management procedures.

In 2020, the building received multiple violations related to safety notice requirements, including the need to post gas leak procedures, housing information guides, inspection certificate notices, carbon monoxide detector requirements, smoke detector requirements, and contact information for the heating system keyholder – though these violations were subsequently closed after the owner certified compliance in August 2020. More recent concerns include documented rat activity during inspections in February 2023 and December 2022, as well as a violation from 2016.

While there was one complaint about work without a permit in August 2022, this was investigated and found to warrant no violation at that time. The building's record shows a concerning pattern of health and safety compliance issues, particularly regarding pest management and rodent control, though some older violations related to safety notices have been addressed. The most pressing ongoing compliance issue appears to be the failure to file the required bedbug reports, with four consecutive years of violations as of 2024.