349 Etna Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208

The three-story, three-unit tenement at 349 Etna Street in Cypress Hills, owned by Ferdous Ahmed, is a 1910 building currently facing multiple housing maintenance challenges. Most notably, there is an ongoing pattern of bedbug reporting violations, with open Class A violations recorded annually from 2021 through 2024, all related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports as per Housing Maintenance Code requirements.

This continuing non-compliance represents a significant persistent issue affecting resident safety and comfort. Additionally, there is an active Environmental Control Board violation from December 2024 regarding an unauthorized curb cut installation at the rear of the property, for which a $2,500 penalty has been imposed but remains unpaid as of this date. This violation stems from an inspection of a newly-installed curb cut that was found to be constructed without the necessary permits or filed jobs.

The building's recent history includes several complaint inspections between 2021 and 2024, though most resulted in no violations being warranted at the time of inspection. These complaints included concerns about excessive debris and site conditions endangering workers, both from December 2021, and an unrelated complaint about an illegal curb cut/driveway that was eventually served as an Oath violation in December 2024. It's worth noting that the property passed a rodent inspection conducted in March 2012, though this information is now quite dated given the ten-year gap since that inspection.