1824 Benson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11214

1824 Benson Avenue is a 2-story, 3-unit residential building located in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, owned by Robert Schmidt and constructed in 1924 as a New Law tenement. The building has experienced several regulatory scrutiny events over the past decade, with the most recent notable issues being related to bedbug reporting compliance.

Between 2021 and 2024, the building received three class A violations for failing to file annual bedbug reports with HPD, though no actual infestations were reported in any of the subsequent filings. The building underwent multiple inspections (2021, 2023, 2024) related to this violation, all of which were eventually closed. The property has also been involved in several complaints regarding potential illegal activities, including three complaints about illegal hotel rooms in residential buildings between 2020-2021 and two complaints about illegal conversions between 2018-2021.

All these complaints were marked as "Access Denied – 2nd Attempt," indicating that inspectors were unable to gain access to verify the reported conditions. Despite these regulatory concerns, there is no record of any confirmed bedbug infestations or unauthorized unit conversions occurring in the building, as evidenced by the consistently empty infestation counts in all bedbug reports filed from 2019 through 2024. The most recent bedbug reporting filings, submitted between July and November 2024, continue to show zero infestation or eradication cases across all units for the specified reporting periods.