4609 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220

4609 4th Avenue is a historic three-story building located in Sunset Park, constructed in 1899 and classified as an Old Law Tenement. The property, currently owned by Jose Alvarez, has experienced recurring compliance issues with the NYC Housing Maintenance Code over the past five years, particularly concerning bedbug reporting requirements.

Since 2022, there have been three open violations (as of April 2024) related to the failure to file the annual bedbug report as mandated by HPD rules, although in 2021 there was one closed violation for this same issue. Interestingly, during the 2019-2020 bedbug reporting period that concluded in April 2021, the building reported no infested units, no eradicated units, and no re-infested units, suggesting the violations may have been technical in nature rather than indicative of an active infestation. The building's maintenance history also includes a resolved safety issue from 2019, where the front entrance lighting was found inadequate.

This violation, classified as a "B" violation (indicating it was more serious than the bedbug reporting violations), concerned insufficient lighting at the front entranceway, where required lighting of at least 100 watts was not being maintained from sunset to sunrise. This particular issue was certified as resolved within approximately two weeks of its issuance in May 2019. Since then, no further lighting violations have been recorded, and there have been no other documented safety or maintenance concerns.