2864 East 196th Street, Bronx, NY 10461

The three-unit, two-story building at 2864 East 196th Street in Pelham Bay, owned by Xiaofang Chen and constructed in 1925, has maintained a concerning pattern of regulatory non-compliance over recent years.

Since 2021, the property has received four consecutive class A Housing Maintenance Code violations related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), with the most recent citation recorded in April 2024 still listed as open. This ongoing oversight represents a significant lapse in housing maintenance requirements, particularly given the potential health and comfort implications for residents.

Prior to this pattern of bedbug report violations, the building underwent a mandatory initial rodent inspection in April 2019, which it successfully passed, indicating that while there was at least one rodent inspection on record, rodent-related issues have not been a recent concern. The consistent nature of the bedbug report violations over multiple years suggests either administrative oversight or challenges in maintaining compliance with current housing regulations.