60 East 96th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212

60 East 96th Street is a two-story, four-unit New Law tenement building constructed in 1930 and currently owned by Andrew Smith. The property has experienced several maintenance issues over the past few years, with the most recent being an open violation from April 2024 regarding the failure to file the required annual bedbug report, a matter which had previously been cited in inspections from 2021, 2022, and 2023, indicating a pattern of non-compliance with housing maintenance code requirements.

The building's maintenance history shows two significant incidents in 2019, when door and window frame issues were reported, though inspectors were unable to gain access for verification. More recently, in January 2022, there was an emergency heat and hot water outage affecting the entire building, which was resolved according to tenant reports, though it required an HPD intervention to restore basic services. The building's infrastructure and maintenance history raises some concerns, particularly regarding the repeated bedbug reporting violations and the documented heat and hot water outage in 2022.

While the property has seen some maintenance issues typical of buildings of its age, the pattern of bedbug report violations over multiple years suggests inconsistent adherence to housing code requirements. Additionally, the property failed a rodent inspection in May 2014 for unspecified reasons, though there have been no subsequent rodent-related complaints on record. The combination of these factors suggests a building experiencing recurring challenges with basic maintenance and regulatory compliance, though there have been no documented fire safety or structural issues in the available records.