1516 West 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11204

1516 West 5th Street is a four-story, 8-unit New Law Tenement building constructed in 1928 and currently owned by Yinhua Ng, located in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. The building has experienced several maintenance issues over recent years, with the most significant being a paint/plaster ceiling complaint filed in November 2022, which HPD could not inspect, and a pest-related complaint that was investigated but resulted in no violations (both cases were closed in early 2023).

Other reported issues include garbage/recycling storage problems in August 2020 (no violations found) and a window pane complaint in January 2020 that HPD could not inspect. The building has had three consecutive annual bedbug violation notices from 2021 to 2023, though these appear to be more administrative in nature regarding reporting requirements rather than indicating ongoing infestations.

Importantly, the most recent bedbug report from June 2025 indicates zero infested units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units for the 2023-2024 period, with similar clean records for the previous two years (2022-2023 and 2021-2022). This suggests that while there were compliance issues with reporting requirements, the actual bedbug situation has been well-managed in recent years. While most service requests and violations from previous years have been closed without penalties or violations being issued, the pattern of needing to re-file complaints due to lack of access for inspections in multiple cases suggests potential access issues for inspectors.