3720 Maple Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224

3720 Maple Avenue in Sea Gate is a three-story, three-unit residential building constructed in 1925 and currently owned by Keith Wachtel. The property has a concerning history of bedbug reporting compliance issues, with open Class A Housing Maintenance Code Violations recorded annually from 2021 through 2024, all relating to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

More seriously, the building has multiple active structural violations dating back to 2018 that raise significant concerns about resident safety and building maintenance. These violations, primarily issued to a previous owner, Pallonetti Joseph, involve failure to maintain building walls and appurtenances, with specific mentions of horizontal and vertical cracks, particularly affecting the fourth exposure and deteriorated conditions of the second and third-floor porches.

The penalties associated with these violations are substantial, totaling $40,000 across four separate ECB violations ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 each, plus an additional $6,250 violation for failing to comply with the Commissioner's order. There are also two active DOB violations from August 2018 related to the failure to certify correction of immediately hazardous conditions. While the building has had some recent Department of Building complaints as of June 2023, all of these were marked as "AG" (with no specific details provided in the summary), and the status of these issues was resolved by July 2023.