988 Sacket Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462

The 988 Sackett Avenue property, owned by Joseph Sciuto, is a three-story, three-unit residential building in Morris Park, constructed in 1965 and currently classified as a converted Class A building. The most significant recent concerns emerged in mid-2024, when the building received multiple housing maintenance code violations and complaints, including immediate emergency issues with the fire escape and non-emergency concerns about plumbing and pest problems. The fire escape violation, classified as Class C, involved a defective condition requiring attention to a broken tread on the second-story balcony.

Several safety-related violations were documented during a June 2024 inspection, including missing fire escape signage, lack of proper gas leak procedures notice, and deficiencies in smoke detector requirement postings. While most of these violations were subsequently certified as closed by September 2024, there remains an open Class C violation regarding the fire escape and an open Class A violation concerning bathroom ceiling paint in Apartment 2. The building's recent history shows some attention to pest management, with no reported bedbug infestations in the most recent reporting period from November 2022 to October 2023, and a passed rodent inspection in January 2023.

An asbestos complaint from July 2021 was closed with notification being sent to the owner after unsuccessful contact attempts. The building has undergone maintenance inspections that revealed various safety compliance issues, particularly regarding emergency preparedness and resident safety signage, though many of these have been addressed and closed. The property's 311 service requests and housing maintenance complaints from 2024 have all been resolved, with no current open complaints other than the previously mentioned violations.