1653 West 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223

The three-story, six-unit apartment building at 1653 West 7th Street in Gravesend, constructed in 1928 and currently owned by Xiao Rong Yang, has experienced several notable compliance issues in recent years. Most concerning is the pattern of housing maintenance code violations related to bedbug reporting requirements, with four consecutive annual violations from 2021 through 2024, indicating an ongoing failure to file the mandatory annual bedbug reports with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

Additionally, there are active Department of Buildings (DOB) violations from June 2023 related to the failure to file required external low-pressure inspections for the years 2018 through 2021, though a similar violation from 2022 was dismissed in June 2023. The building's compliance history includes three Local Law audit inspections in August 2020, all of which resulted in compliance, and a work without permit complaint from November 2020 that found no violations at the time of inspection.

A permit for exterior work was issued in September 2019. While the building has had its share of violations and compliance issues, it's worth noting that many recent problems relate to documentation and reporting requirements rather than direct safety concerns, though the repeated bedbug report violations suggest a potential pattern of oversight in building maintenance compliance.