118 Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222

The two-family house at 118 Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint, built in 1920 and currently owned by Kingsland B3 LLC, has undergone significant scrutiny since late 2019. In December 2019, multiple serious violations were documented, revealing unauthorized conversion of the property from its original two-family status to a makeshift nine-unit configuration with single-room occupancies (SROs). The building was found to have unauthorized full-height partitions creating five rooms and two bathrooms on the first floor, and four rooms on the second floor, along with numerous safety violations including inadequate means of egress, missing fire alarm systems, and lack of required sprinkler systems.

These violations warranted a vacate order, though it was later rescinded in April 2020. The Department of Buildings issued several Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations on December 11, 2019, which were subsequently resolved with no penalties imposed. Since these violations, the building has maintained a clean record with no reported infestations in the past three years, according to bedbug reporting data from 2021 through 2024.

The only permit activity on record was a permit issued in January 2020 for unspecified work (permit type EW, job number 321456125). The absence of recent violations or complaints since 2019 suggests compliance with building regulations since the resolution of the 2019 violations, though the nature of the 2020 permit work is not specified. The most recent bedbug reporting periods (2023-2024) show no signs of infestation or eradication efforts.