438 61st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220

The four-story, 16-unit tenement building at 438 61st Street in Sunset Park, owned by Mark Weinberger, was constructed in 1913 and has undergone several maintenance issues in recent years. Most notably, in December 2023, the building was cited for multiple maintenance violations, including an open Class A violation regarding bathroom ceiling paint in Apartment 4A, and several closed Class B violations affecting Apartments 1D (leaky kitchen faucet), 3C (kitchen ceiling plaster), 1B (floor tile issues), and 3A (bathroom ceiling and wall plaster).

These issues followed two appliance-related complaints in July 2022 (for a refrigerator and an electric/gas range), though inspectors were unable to gain access to verify these problems at that time. The building has maintained an overall good record regarding bedbug infestations.

While there were confirmed cases in 2019-2020 (affecting one unit), subsequent annual reports from 2020 through the present (most recently filed in December 2024) have shown no reported infestations, with all affected units being successfully treated and no re-infestations noted. The property has a history of addressing various maintenance issues, with some violations showing as closed, including multiple window repairs in Apartment 1D from 2021-2022, and other repairs completed in Apartments 1B, 1D, 3A, and 3C. The building's management has demonstrated compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, consistently filing annual reports with no current or re-infestation cases reported in the past three years.