8416 21st Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11214

8416 21st Avenue is a 16-unit, 4-story New Law tenement building located in Bensonhurst, built in 1915 and currently owned by Kin Ng. The building has experienced recurring heating and hot water issues, with three separate complaints in 2025 alone (most recently in May 2025), along with multiple similar complaints in 2024, 2022, and 2020, though HPD inspections confirmed restoration of services in each case.

There have been several plumbing-related incidents, particularly in 2022, with complaints about water supply issues occurring in April, July, and August of that year, including one classified as an immediate emergency. The building underwent significant maintenance in 2020, addressing various safety concerns such as broken fire retardant ceiling repairs, garbage accumulation in passageways, and multiple violations regarding public hall and stairway conditions, including handrail replacement and cleaning requirements. These violations were certified as corrected by mid-2021.

The property has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with no reported cases across multiple annual filings from 2019 through 2024, and it passed all rodent inspections conducted between 2016 and 2017, despite one failure noted for "Other Reasons" in November 2016. In terms of recent building conditions, aside from the recurring heat and hot water issues, there have been no new violations recorded since the major 2020-2021 remediation work, and no new complaints of unsanitary conditions - the last significant such complaint was from July 2022 regarding garbage/recycling storage. The building's age and periodic infrastructure issues, particularly regarding heating systems, suggest ongoing maintenance challenges, though the prompt responses to complaints and resolution of most other violations indicate some level of management attention to building conditions.