561 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215

561 6th Avenue, a 3-story, 6-unit Old Law Tenement building located in South Slope and owned by Joseph Michael, has a documented history primarily concerning heating system issues. The building, constructed in 1931, has experienced four separate heat and hot water complaints over the past seven years (2018-2022), including a December 2022 issue affecting individual apartments, an April 2021 building-wide problem, and two other building-wide incidents in November 2019 and December 2018, all classified as emergencies.

Notably, in each of these cases, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) was unable to gain access to the units for inspection, leading to the closure of these complaints with a recommendation for residents to re-file if the issue persisted. More positively, the building has maintained a clean record regarding pest control, with no reported bedbug infestations in the past six annual reporting periods from 2019 to 2024.

The most recent bedbug reports from December 2024, 2023, and 2022, showed zero infested or re-infested units. The property also underwent rodent inspections in 2011, which showed initial rat activity in October 2011, but a compliance inspection in November 2011 passed without issues. This three-story building's heating system has been a recurring concern over recent years, though no additional housing maintenance code violations are on record in the more recent past, suggesting improved conditions.