176 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

176 Irving Avenue is a three-story, four-unit Old Law Tenement building in Bushwick, constructed in 1931 and currently owned by Wilber Gonzalez. The building has experienced several notable maintenance issues over the past years, with the most significant being a heat and hot water outage reported in November 2018, though this was quickly resolved according to HPD records. In 2018, multiple violations were documented concerning apartment 3R, including issues with the buzzer system, missing carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, and a roach infestation, all of which were subsequently addressed and closed.

Between 2021 and 2024, the building has received consistent citations for not filing annual bedbug reports as required by HPD rules, with the most recent violation recorded in April 2024. The building had one safety-related violation in 2021 regarding self-closing doors to the cellar at the first story, which was certified as corrected by July 2021. A plumbing complaint from 2019 was investigated but found to have no warranted violations at the time of inspection.

Most notably, the building has maintained a good track record in recent years, with no documented rodent activity since September 2020 and passing all rodent inspections in 2022-2025. The most recent bedbug report from August 2024 shows no infestations during the 2022-2023 reporting period, continuing a trend of no treated units across multiple annual reports since 2021. While the building has had its share of maintenance issues, particularly in 2018 and 2021, recent inspections and reports suggest improved conditions and compliance with health and safety requirements.