52-38 72nd Street, Queens, NY 11378

52-38 72nd Street is a three-story, three-unit residential building constructed in 2000 and currently owned by Kam Wah Cheng. The building has experienced several notable maintenance issues over the past two years, with the most significant being a series of heat and hot water problems documented in October 2023, resulting in multiple emergency complaints and at least one violation requiring correction of inadequate hot water supply to the 3rd-floor apartment.

More recently, in early 2024, there was a door-related emergency complaint that was eventually closed, following inspection by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The building has also faced security and access-related concerns, including violations in late 2023 regarding a locked boiler room door that restricted access to the heating system, and multiple violations in 2023-2024 regarding illegal double-cylinder locks installed at building entrances.

In addition to the above issues, the building has required various safety and compliance corrections, including the repair or replacement of a broken glass pane at the building's front entrance, and the correction of missing or defective self-closing doors at the front entrance. HPD inspections in late 2023 and early 2024 resulted in several violations being issued and subsequently closed, including requirements to post proper notices regarding housing information and carbon monoxide detector requirements. The building's maintenance history shows consistent attention to bedbug prevention, with no reported infestations in the annual bedbug reports filed between 2019 and 2023, indicating effective pest management through regular monitoring and maintenance procedures.