838 Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220

838 Bay Ridge Avenue is a three-story, 6-unit New Law tenement building constructed in 1926, currently owned by Mingfai Lo. The building has a significant history of heat and hot water issues, with six reported incidents between 2018 and 2023 - five affecting the entire building and one an individual apartment - though most were resolved quickly, typically within a few days of reporting.

The property has ongoing bedbug reporting violations from 2022-2024, for failing to submit required annual reports, and multiple open violations from 2020 related to blocked public hallways on the 3rd story and issues with doors at Apartment 1R. Safety concerns were documented in January 2019, including missing gas leak notices and heating system access information, though these violations are now in closed status. The most recent significant events occurred in 2023, including the issuance of three Environmental Control Board violations related to unauthorized renovation work in Apartment 2F, which was stopped mid-progress and involved code violations such as missing fire stopping.

The building's maintenance history shows some pattern of non-compliance with annual inspection requirements, as evidenced by active violations for failure to file external low-pressure inspections for 2018-2020, issued in June 2023. A complaint regarding egress issues was filed and inspected in 2020, though no violations were found at the time. While the building has passed rodent inspections in 2013, it's worth noting that the most recent bedbug report (for 2019-2020) indicated zero infested units.