224 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213

224 Utica Avenue is a three-story, two-family residential building located in Crown Heights, built in 1920 and currently owned by Matt Bader. The property has experienced several significant maintenance and safety issues over its recent history, with the most concerning being a carbon monoxide detector safety complaint from January-May 2025, which HPD inspectors were unable to access the premises to verify.

Prior to this, a heat and hot water emergency complaint in February 2019 also faced access issues during inspection. The building has a documented history of plumbing and maintenance problems dating back to 2005, with multiple violations including defective water closets, hot water provision failures in both apartments, leaky faucets, and a vermin infestation in the second-story apartment, though all these violations were certified as closed by June 2021. The property underwent some form of renovation or work as evidenced by a permit issued in October 2020.

More recent inspections have shown improvements, with the building maintaining a clean record regarding bedbug infestations from 2020 through 2024, showing zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested units during these annual filings. However, there were reports of rat activity in 2017 and 2018, suggesting past rodent issues, though no recent evidence of such problems has been documented. While the building's current bedbug and rodent records appear stable, the recent carbon monoxide detector complaint and historical pattern of access issues during inspections warrant attention to the importance of maintenance access and safety equipment verification in the building's management practices.