51-22 Jacobus Street, Queens, NY 11373

The property at 51-22 Jacobus Street in Elmhurst is a two-story, one-unit building constructed in 1950 and currently owned by Yu Chai Weng. The building has experienced several significant maintenance issues in recent years, most notably in March 2024 when emergency complaints were filed regarding heat/hot water and cooking gas problems affecting the entire building.

These complaints were closed without inspection access being granted to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The building has ongoing regulatory compliance issues, with open violations as of April 2024 related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports for multiple years (2021-2023), despite the 2021 report showing no infestation during the 2019-2020 period. Additionally, there is a concerning historical record of rodent inspection failures from July and August 2014, which the building has not documented subsequent remediation for.

The most recent available data indicates that while the building has maintained some basic reporting requirements from 2021-2023 regarding bedbugs, there appears to be a persistent gap in compliance with HPD regulations. The 311 complaints from March 2024 regarding heat/hot water and gas issues suggest recurring infrastructure problems, though without completed inspections to ascertain the full scope of the issues. Given the nature of these complaints and the historical concerns with rodents, the building's maintenance record shows a pattern of delayed or incomplete responses to both resident needs and regulatory requirements.