437 17th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

The three-story, six-unit residential building at 437 17th Street in Windsor Terrace, owned by Michael Castellano, has maintained a concerning pattern of housing maintenance code violations over the past four years. Most notably, there is an ongoing series of violations related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), with recorded violations in 2021, 2022, 2023, and most recently in April 2024, all of which remain open.

These bedbug report violations, classified as "Class A" violations, indicate a failure to comply with mandatory reporting requirements designed to protect resident health and safety. The building's only other recorded inspection was a successful initial rodent inspection in June 2018, which passed.

It's worth noting that while the rodent inspection result was positive at that time, the building's ongoing bedbug report violations present a consistent pattern of non-compliance with housing maintenance requirements. The property, which dates back to 1931, is classified as an "OLD LAW TENEMENT," a designation typically applied to pre-1938 buildings in New York City. The most recent bedbug report violation in April 2024, occurring over three years after the initial bedbug report violation in 2021, suggests an ongoing challenge with maintaining required documentation and compliance with HPD reporting requirements.