516 New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207

The three-story residential building at 516 New Lots Avenue in East New York, owned by Joseph Ortiz, is a 4-unit New Law Tenement constructed in 1926. The property has experienced several maintenance issues over the past five years, with the most significant cluster of problems occurring in 2022. Noteworthy violations from September 2022 included a broken or defective fire retardant ceiling in the south cellar, an illegal fastening slide bolt at the roof bulkhead door, and multiple issues with self-closing doors in the boiler room and public hall stairs.

A concerning violation in August 2022 involved extremely hot water exceeding 130°F in Apartment 4, and there were also problems with the building's chimney and boiler room markings documented in a March 2022 ECB violation. The building has had a series of 311 complaints and Housing Maintenance Code violations, particularly in 2022, including issues with doors, water leaks, flooring, and heating elements. While there was one emergency complaint about electrical lighting in July 2020, most other complaints were categorized as non-emergency.

The property has maintained a clean record regarding bedbugs, with no reported infestations in the past several years (2021-2025), and passed rodent inspections in 2012 and 2011, though there were some initial failures noted in 2011. The most recent building inspection history shows that many violations from 2022 were closed, with the exception of a 2022 ECB violation related to the boiler room conditions that was still showing as active in 2022. The building's maintenance history suggests ongoing attention to various infrastructure issues, particularly in 2022 when multiple violations and service complaints were addressed, though it remains to be seen whether these problems have been fully resolved as of July 2025.