85 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

85 Ralph Avenue is a 4-story, 7-unit residential building constructed in 1920 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, currently owned by Rami Esses. The building has experienced several maintenance issues over recent years, with the most recent being a pest-related complaint in April 2024 that HPD was unable to inspect.

Prior to this, there were instances of unsanitary conditions involving mold in 2021 and heat/hot water issues in 2018, though no violations were found in these cases. The building has undergone regular rodent inspections since 2018, with passed results in 2023, 2024, and 2025, suggesting recent improvement in pest management. Significantly, in 2018, violations were recorded regarding safety protocols, including a failure to properly arrange self-closing doors in apartment 4B, and deficiencies in posting gas leak emergency procedures and registration information, though these were eventually certified as corrected by November 2018.

Importantly, there have been no reported bedbug infestations in any of the annual reports from 2019 through 2024. An attempted inspection in 2020 regarding a complaint about illegal conversion of commercial space was marked as unable to gain access. However, the building's recent history shows consistent rodent inspections with no activity reported since 2014, and all annual bedbug reports show zero affected units, indicating effective management of these specific pest issues despite the more recent concerns about general unsanitary conditions.