8716 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209

The three-story, five-unit building at 8716 3rd Avenue in Fort Hamilton, owned by Kevin Yuen, is a 1926 New Law tenement currently facing several maintenance and compliance issues as of 2025. The property has open violations from 2024 related to building safety and maintenance requirements, including missing or defective self-closing vestibule doors, inadequate posting of heating system access information, and failure to maintain proper emergency gas leak procedures.

Additionally, there are two open issues regarding bedbug reporting compliance from March 2023 and April 2024. Recent service requests indicate ongoing concerns with pest management, with complaints filed in January 2024, though no violations were issued following HPD inspections. The building has a concerning history of food safety issues, with multiple Department of Health and Mental Hygiene complaints recorded between 2018 and 2024, including two food poisoning incidents and repeated violations of proper food handling procedures.

The property has shown mixed results in rodent inspections, with initial rat activity noted in March 2018 followed by a passing result in April 2018, and earlier inspections in 2009 and 2010 also passing. While the building has reported bedbug activity in the past, particularly in 2018 when two units were affected, subsequent reports from 2019 and 2021 indicated no affected units. The frequency and variety of recent complaints suggest ongoing challenges with building maintenance and resident safety that warrant attention.