60-03 56th Road, Queens, NY 11378

The 2-unit, 3-story residential building at 60-03 56th Road in Maspeth, owned by James Korsak and built in 1910, has experienced recurring issues with bedbug reporting compliance over the past four years. Between 2021 and 2024, the property received four class A housing maintenance violations for failing to file the required annual bedbug reports, with the most recent violations in 2023 and 2024 still remaining open.

Interestingly, the building's official bedbug reporting records from 2019-2021 show no documented infestations during the specified periods, with all counts listed as zero for infested, eradicated, and re-infested units. The Department of Buildings received three complaints regarding the property in 2023, all of which were ultimately closed without violations being found. These complaints included concerns about illegal or defective gas hook-up/piping (November), construction contrary to approved plans/permits (September), and illegal after-hours work (also September).

Notably, in the case of the gas-related complaint, inspectors were unable to gain access to the building for inspection, and for both construction-related complaints, inspections occurred without any violations being warranted at the time. The current state of the building suggests ongoing challenges with bedbug report compliance, as evidenced by the open violations in 2023 and 2024, though these are somewhat counterbalanced by the absence of actual infestation cases in the official reports. The recently closed complaints indicate that while there have been concerns raised about various issues, inspections have generally found no violations at the time of their visits.