1704 West 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223

The property at 1704 West 12th Street in Gravesend is a two-story, 4-unit New Law Tenement built in 1930, currently owned by Fengduan Lin. The building experienced significant maintenance issues in 2022, with multiple Housing Maintenance Code violations being identified on May 28, including problems with self-closing doors, missing safety notices, and fire egress concerns in ground floor Unit 1F. During this period, there were also violations related to pest control, specifically a cockroach infestation in apartment 1F.

The building management faced scrutiny for not filing the required annual bedbug report in March 2023. These 2022 violations, many of which were designated as Class A or C (more serious categories), were eventually certified as corrected by June 2022. More recent records from 2023 and 2025 show improved conditions at the property, with no reported infestations in the latest bedbug reports (2023-2025 filing period), and no new Housing Maintenance Code violations.

An attempted inspection regarding an illegal conversion complaint in November 2022 was denied access, but this does not appear to have led to further issues. A rodent inspection from 2010 had passed, indicating that pest control has been a recurring concern in the building's history. The property has maintained compliance with bedbug reporting requirements since the violations in 2022, with consistently reported periods showing zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested dwelling units through 2025, suggesting improvements in pest management practices.