573 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207

The two-family house at 573 Van Siclen Avenue in East New York, owned by Ismene Speliotis, has been in service since 1930 and is currently experiencing several issues with its entrance security and door mechanisms. Most notably, as of August 2024, there are two open Class C violations related to entrance door problems: one concerning a defective lock assembly and another regarding self-closing doors with missing or defective hinges on the first story entrance.

These ongoing issues follow a pattern of entrance door maintenance challenges, as evidenced by a 2013 violation involving a broken metal entrance door corner, which was certified as corrected in 2018. The building has maintained a relatively good record in terms of pest control, with no bedbug infestations reported in the most recent five years of bedbug reporting, from 2020 to 2024.

However, there have been some rodent activity concerns in 2019, though this was followed by several passed compliance checks throughout 2020 and earlier years. More recently, in July 2025, there was a complaint regarding a defective or inoperative boiler, which resulted in an oath violation being served, though the status of this issue is currently marked as closed. The property has had minimal other documented complaints, and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development conducted an inspection in July 2024 that resulted in no violations being issued, despite the pending door-related violations.