861 St Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213

861 St Marks Avenue is a 4-story, 8-unit residential building in Crown Heights, built in 1898 and currently owned by Richard N Osborne 861 LLC. The property has shown persistent issues with maintenance compliance, particularly regarding bedbug reporting requirements, with open violations dating back to 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 indicating failure to file mandatory annual bedbug reports as required by the Housing Maintenance Code.

The apartment 3C has been the subject of multiple violations since 2018, including dangerous conditions such as broken window guards (with some violations closed but resulting in additional repairs required), unsanitary conditions including a rodent infestation, and various issues with wall surfaces requiring repairs and repainting. More recently, as of June 2023, there are active Department of Buildings violations for failure to file mandatory external low-pressure inspections for 2019 and 2020.

Despite these ongoing issues, the building has passed recent rodent inspections in 2023 and 2024, showing some improvement in pest control compliance. The building's maintenance history shows a pattern of violations being issued, particularly focused on safety concerns (such as window guards) and sanitary conditions (including the need for pest control). It's notable that while many violations remain open, some categories of violations have been resolved, such as the 2018-2018 inspections related to apartment 3C which were marked as closed, though many additional violations were subsequently issued for the same apartment.