4816 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220

The three-story, five-unit New Law tenement building at 4816 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, owned by Tony Safonte, was constructed in 1926 and has had several significant maintenance events over the past several years. In August 2018, the building received multiple housing maintenance code violations across different apartments (1R, 2F, and 3F), primarily related to door self-closing mechanisms, with a more serious Class C violation in apartment 2F concerning missing or defective window guards.

All of these violations have since been closed, although the records do not indicate whether they were certified as corrected. More recently, in July 2022, there was a complaint about illegal after-hours work, though no violations were found upon inspection.

The building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with consistent reports from 2019 through 2024 showing zero infested dwelling units, zero units requiring eradication, and no cases of re-infestation. The most recent bedbug report, filed in December 2024, continued this pattern of none being reported in the previous year (2023-2024), suggesting effective ongoing pest management. While the 2018 violations indicated some safety and security concerns at that time, the lack of recent maintenance violations or pest issues over the past several years suggests improved building conditions, though it's worth noting that the records do not provide information on whether the 2018 violations were formally certified as corrected.