5305 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220

The four-story, six-unit tenement building at 5305 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, owned by Miguel Hernandez, has experienced recurring heat and hot water system issues over the past several years, with the most recent complaints occurring in February 2024. These complaints, classified as emergencies, involved both unit-specific and building-wide heating concerns, though Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) inspections were either unable to access units or resulted in no violations being issued.

A mold complaint was also reported and investigated in February 2024, though no violations were found. The building experienced a similar pattern of heat and hot water issues in November 2019, with multiple complaints requiring HPD intervention, some of which were marked as building-wide problems.

Despite these heating system challenges, the building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with all annual reports from 2018 through the current reporting period (2024) showing zero infested units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units. These consistent bedbug reports, submitted annually from December 2018 through December 2024, indicate that the building has successfully avoided this common pest problem for over six consecutive years. While the heating system issues represent the primary pattern of maintenance concerns in recent years, particularly during the 2019 and 2024 winter seasons, the absence of other major violations or persistent maintenance issues suggests that these problems may be isolated incidents rather than indicative of systemic building-wide deficiencies.