454 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11225

454 Empire Boulevard is a 2-story, 4-unit New Law Tenement building located in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, constructed in 1924 and currently owned by Ambroise Lafleur. The building's most pressing current concerns center around bedbug reporting compliance, with open violations noted in 2023 and 2024 for failure to file the annual bedbug report as required by HPD rules. While a bedbug report was filed in March 2022 covering the period from November 2020 to October 2021, indicating no infested or previously infested units during that period, the ongoing violation suggests continued non-compliance with reporting requirements.

The building has a history of safety-related violations that, while mostly resolved, indicate past concerns. In 2018, multiple safety violations were issued requiring the posting of important tenant safety information regarding gas leaks, carbon monoxide detectors, and housing information guides, though all these violations were certified as closed by August 2018. There was also a significant nuisance violation in 2019 related to an accumulation of boxes and debris in Apartment 1R.

The building's maintenance history includes multiple rodent inspections between 2011 and 2017, with mixed results - while some inspections passed, there were also failures for "Other Reasons" in 2013 and 2017. An earlier safety violation from 2018 required repairs to defective ceramic floor tiles in the public hall, which was subsequently resolved. The property appears to have maintained reasonable compliance with housing maintenance codes overall, though with some recurring issues such as the bedbug reporting violations that have persisted since 2022, and periodic rodent-related concerns.