131-44 40th Road, Queens, NY 11354

The property at 131-44 40th Road in Flushing, a 4-story two-family house built in 2007 and owned by Xiao Song Zhang, has experienced several notable incidents over recent years.

The building has been the subject of two illegal conversion complaints in 2021 and 2022, both involving unauthorized conversion of commercial space to dwelling units, though inspections in both cases (on September 8, 2021, and February 28, 2023) were hindered by the inspector's inability to gain access, marked as "2nd Final Attempt." These ongoing concerns about unauthorized modifications were officially acknowledged in a March 2019 violation for "CEASE USE," though this was subsequently dismissed based on a follow-up report showing that the defects had been corrected. The building's elevator system has experienced regulatory scrutiny, receiving a violation in April 2019 for failing to file the required Category 1 inspection/test documentation for 2017, though this violation was ultimately dismissed in November 2022.

More recently, from late 2022 through October 2023, the building underwent routine bedbug reporting as per NYC regulations, with no infestations reported in any dwelling units during this period. The most recent available data shows no active violations or complaints as of October 2023, suggesting that the property has maintained compliance with health and safety regulations over the past year, though the history of access-related inspection failures regarding illegal conversions warrants attention.