717 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

717 40th Street is a 3-story, 6-unit New Law Tenement building constructed in 1923 and currently owned by Vinh Nguyen. The building's recent history reveals several concerning safety issues that emerged between March 2023 and April 2024, including problems with window guards, door security, and structural maintenance. A March 2023 inspection identified multiple violations requiring attention, such as the need to repair defective window guards throughout public areas, fix self-closing doors in the basement and first-story areas, address loose metal stair nosing, and repair various safety features including fire retardant materials.

These violations were subsequently addressed and closed by April 2023, with the exception of a bedbug reporting violation which remains open as of April 2024. More recent developments include two active violations issued in June 2023 related to the failure to file 2018 and 2019 external low pressure inspections. The building's bedbug reporting history shows no infestations between November 2021 and October 2022, with zero infested units reported.

The property previously faced scrutiny in 2018-2021 when a vacate order was issued but was fully rescinded by June 2021. An initial rodent inspection conducted in March 2017 passed without issues. While many safety concerns from 2023 were addressed, the building continues to have outstanding violations as of 2024 related to inspection filings, and it is important to note that the most recent bedbug report was filed only in June 2023, covering a previous period of November 2021 to October 2022.