478 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

478 Putnam Avenue is a 3-story, 2-unit residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, constructed in 1915 and currently owned by Ashta Hunter-fenton. The building has undergone significant scrutiny over the years, with its most pressing recent issues occurring in late 2023, when there were three complaints regarding illegal hotel rooms and plumbing work in October, followed by a series of compliance tracking complaints in September - though inspections for these complaints either found no violations or access could not be gained.

Notably, the building has maintained an impeccable bedbug-free record for the past seven filing periods from 2018 to 2025, with no instances of infestation or re-infestation reported. The property has a documented history of violations from 1993, primarily affecting the first-floor apartment and involving multiple safety and maintenance issues, including exposed electrical wiring, defective window frames, plumbing problems, and problems with smoke detection devices. However, all these 1993 violations were officially certified as closed in late 2023.

More recent issues include a construction-related violation from 2019 involving a one-inch hole drilled in the rear wall of the adjacent property, which was ultimately dismissed, and a rat activity inspection in March 2019, though subsequent inspections in 2019, 2022, and 2024 passed without issue. The building's infrastructure has experienced typical urban aging, with most violations relating to maintenance and safety standards rather than structural integrity. The property appears to have undergone proper remediation of its historical violations, as evidenced by the certification of closure for all outstanding 1993 violations.