56 South Portland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

56 South Portland Avenue is a 4-story, 10-unit residential building in Fort Greene, constructed in 1883 and currently owned by Jestina Dietze. The building has a documented history of bedbug-related administrative violations, with Notices of Violation issued in 2021, 2022, and most recently in April 2024, all related to the Housing Maintenance Code requirement to file annual bedbug reports.

Despite these violations, the building's official bedbug reporting records for the past several years indicate minimal activity: in the 2024 filing period (November 2022 to October 2023), there were no reported infested units, and in the 2022 filing period (November 2021 to October 2022), there were also no reported infestations. The only documented instance of bedbug activity occurred in the 2019-2020 filing period, where one unit had an infestation that was subsequently eradicated. The property has experienced minimal other issues over the past several years.

In May 2024, there was a Department of Buildings complaint regarding illegal hotel rooms in residential buildings, but this complaint was investigated and found to have no warranted violations. Additionally, a building permit was issued in March 2019 for an unspecified work type under job number 321836297. While the recurring bedbug violation notices suggest some administrative lapses in reporting requirements, the actual infestation history appears to be relatively contained, with no reported infestations in the most recent two-year period.