821 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

The property at 821 40th Street in Borough Park is a two-story, four-unit New Law tenement building constructed in 1931, currently owned by Xue Gao. The building has experienced several significant maintenance issues over the past five years, with the most recent being a power outage in October 2022 that required intervention from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

Prior to that, in November 2019, there was a documented heat and hot water outage affecting at least one apartment, though reports indicate these services were restored before inspection. The building had two annual bedbug reporting violations documented in 2021 and 2022, though these were properly addressed as evidenced by subsequent clean filings. More recently, the bedbug situation appears to be fully under control, with the most recent filings in July 2025 and earlier in March 2024 showing zero infested or eradicated units.

An interesting note from January 2019 shows an investigation into possible illegal conversions, though access was denied for inspection. The building has had its share of emergency situations (classified as Immediate Emergency or Emergency) in the form of power and heat/hot water issues, but overall, the state of the building appears to have stabilized in terms of pest control and urgent service interruptions. The property has maintained compliance with annual bedbug reporting requirements since the previous violations, suggesting improved oversight of pest management protocols.