450 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

450 Lexington Avenue is a 4-story, 8-unit old law tenement building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, built in 1931 and currently owned by Herminio Torres. The building has experienced recurring maintenance issues throughout 2024, with multiple complaints regarding appliances, including three refrigerator-related complaints, a gas range issue, and cabinet problems between March and September 2024.

There have also been significant sanitary concerns, with documented rodent activity evidenced by multiple Health Department inspections throughout 2024, most recently in October 2024, despite earlier inspections in 2022 and 2015 showing no such problems. Between March and April 2024, several urgent issues were reported and subsequently addressed, including a serious water leak with heavy flow and electrical problems resulting in no lighting.

The building's maintenance history shows consistent attention to pest management, with no reported bedbug infestations in the last four completed reporting periods from 2021 through 2024, though there were violations related to annual bedbug reporting requirements in 2021 and 2023. A floor repair issue was documented in February 2024 for apartment 1A, requiring proper repair of damaged hardwood flooring in the entrance. The building has maintained an active response to complaints, with all recent issues being formally closed, though access for inspections was sometimes not granted for certain complaints, and multiple repair requests were inspected without violations being issued.