95-25 115th Street, Queens, NY 11419

The three-story, two-family house at 95-25 115th Street in Richmond Hill, owned by Sam Cheung, has experienced several significant maintenance and compliance issues, particularly in early 2019. Most notably, there were illegal modifications to the building, including unauthorized conversion of the cellar into an apartment with kitchen and bathroom facilities, for which the building owner was fined $2,500 by the Environmental Control Board. During the same period, the building faced heating and water issues, with complaints about heat/hot water and a slow water leak being reported and subsequently investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

While the heat issue resulted in an inspection with no violations found, the water leak complaint was verified and noted as corrected. Additional violations were recorded in February 2019 regarding improper use of rooms and disconnected plumbing fixtures in the cellar, along with an unlawful cooking space with a gas range. Since these 2019 incidents, there have been relatively few issues reported.

In 2022, there was a complaint about an inadequate fence, but no violations were found upon inspection. A separate complaint about an alleged illegal conversion in 2019 was investigated and dismissed, as no violations were warranted. The building's violation history shows one instance of not certifying the correction of an immediately hazardous violation in 2019, which was eventually dismissed in September 2019. The property, built in 1920, has had these significant compliance issues related to unauthorized modifications, but there have been no major documented problems in recent years, with the most recent building-related complaints being minor in nature.