2733 Wallace Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467

The two-story, four-unit New Law Tenement building at 2733 Wallace Avenue in Allerton, built in 1925 and currently owned by Youssef Abdulkader, has experienced persistent pest management challenges over the past several years. Most notably, there is an ongoing issue with bedbug reporting compliance, with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issuing four consecutive Class A violations from 2021 through 2024 regarding the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports.

While these violations are administrative in nature, they indicate a pattern of non-compliance with housing maintenance requirements. The building has also faced significant rodent management challenges, particularly notable between 2017 and 2022.

While the most recent rodent inspection in March 2024 passed, previous years saw multiple failures, including two initial inspections in 2018-2022 that resulted in failures for "Other Reasons." The building underwent extensive rodent management efforts in late 2017, with multiple bait applications recorded from September to December of that year, and there were documented rat activities detected in October 2017. The situation appeared to improve somewhat in subsequent years, with various inspection results showing a mixture of compliance and bait applications, culminating in a passed inspection in 2024. While the recent improvement in rodent control is a positive development, the building's history of pest management challenges, both with bedbugs and rodents, suggests that these issues have been a persistent concern affecting the property over time.