464 New Jersey Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207

The three-story, two-family house at 464 New Jersey Avenue in East New York, owned by Adrian Cox, has experienced recurring heating and pest-related issues over the past several years. Most significantly, there was a series of heat-related complaints in late 2022 and early 2023, with multiple emergency complaints filed regarding inadequate heat throughout the entire building.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) received several complaints about heat and hot water issues in December 2022, and additional heating complaints persisted into 2023, though most were eventually administratively closed with indications that the issues were addressed. A noteworthy recent incident involves a pest-related complaint from April 2023, which HPD was unable to inspect due to access issues, though the complaint was closed in June 2023. The building's maintenance history shows some attempts at addressing various issues, including a documented heating violation issued to a third-floor apartment in January 2021, requiring the provision of adequate heat throughout the unit.

Other maintenance issues included a door/window complaint in August 2020 and problems with the building's intercom system. The property has shown some improvement in recent years regarding bedbug and rodent activity, with the past two bedbug reporting periods (2023-2024 and 2022-2023) showing no infested units, though rodent inspections in 2019 recorded initial rat activity before passing subsequent inspections. While the building has experienced multiple maintenance challenges, particularly regarding heating systems, there is evidence of periodic addressing of these issues, though not always with successful inspections due to access problems.