117 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

117 Ralph Avenue is a four-story, four-unit Old Law Tenement building constructed in 1905, currently owned by Nbd 117 Llc and located in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The building has a mixed record of maintenance and safety compliance over recent years. Most notably, there is an active Department of Buildings violation as of June 2023 regarding failure to file the 2018 external low-pressure inspection.

While the building has maintained an active bedbug monitoring program with no reported infestations or eradications since 2021, there have been several significant safety issues documented in 2019 inspections. These included multiple violations related to illegal lock fastenings obstructing egress, problems with self-closing doors at both the first-floor and fourth-floor bulkhead, and issues with a leaking sprinkler head and defective fire retardant plaster in the first-floor vestibule. All these violations were closed following a July 2019 correction period.

The building's recent maintenance record shows a concerning pattern in rodent inspections, with the most recent inspection in May 2025 showing rat activity, though this was preceded by a "passed" inspection in May 2024 and another successful inspection in September 2022. The property has undergone various permitted work between 2018-2019, including multiple plumbing and alteration permits. While the building has demonstrated compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, with the most recent 2025 report showing zero infested units, the failure to file the 2018 external low-pressure inspection and the recent rodent activity suggests ongoing maintenance challenges.