837 47th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220

The two-story, four-unit New Law Tenement building at 837 47th Street in Borough Park, owned by Tianlong Zhang, has a history dating back to 1920. The most significant health-related incident in recent years occurred in December 2019, when residents filed complaints about unsanitary conditions and mold, though these complaints were investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and resulted in no violations.

The building has experienced minimal regulatory issues since then, with only two violations recorded in 2021 and 2022 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports, though both violations were subsequently closed. Notably, the property has maintained an impressive record regarding bedbug infestations in recent years, with the most recent filings (June 2025 and January 2024) showing zero infested units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units for the reporting periods from November 2023 to October 2024, and November 2022 to October 2023, respectively.

Prior bedbug reporting periods (2020-2021 and earlier) also consistently showed no infestations. This clean track record, combined with the prompt resolution of the 2019 mold complaints and the closure of all subsequent violations, suggests that while the building has experienced some regulatory oversight issues in the past, these have been addressed, and the property currently maintains a good standard of pest control, with no recent complaints about unsanitary conditions or infestations.