7726 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209

The two-story, three-unit residential building at 7726 6th Avenue in Bay Ridge, owned by Elias Karout and constructed in 1920, has a notable pattern of bedbug reporting and compliance issues over the past several years. Most recently, in 2024 and 2023, the building received open Class A violations for failing to file the required annual bedbug reports as mandated by the Housing Maintenance Code, representing a recurring compliance issue that has persisted despite previous violations being marked as closed in 2022 and 2021 for the same infraction.

The building's bedbug reporting history shows consistent reporting periods from 2019 through 2022, with each report indicating zero infested units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units, suggesting either thorough treatment procedures or potential underreporting of actual infestations. In terms of general building maintenance and safety, a Department of Buildings complaint was filed in October 2023 regarding work without a permit in the occupied multiple dwelling, though this complaint was closed the same day with no violations found during the inspection.

The building's rodent inspection in September 2020 passed, indicating no issues were found at that time. The property's history of bedbug violations, though generally indicating before 2023 that infestations were being properly managed and documented through the required reporting, now raises questions about current pest management practices, as evidenced by the two open violations from 2023 and 2024.