Active rodent and roach infestations, indoor air quality calls nearby, and 40 open violations frame this 14-unit building.
A 14-unit pre-war rental carrying 40 open housing-code violations, including 13 immediately hazardous Class C items. Structural pest problems and boiler access citations highlight ongoing management friction. Three key patterns define the record:
Mice and roaches run across multiple floors and apartments. Inspectors issued Class C immediately hazardous citations for roaches and mice in unit 2C in both September 2025 and July 2026, alongside a Class C mouse violation in 3B. Repeating pest conditions across separate apartments and multiple floors over ten months point to building-wide travel routes rather than an isolated tenant issue.
Indoor air quality calls and food establishment complaints concentrate around the block. Six indoor air quality complaints and five food establishment calls were logged within three blocks over the last year. Ground-floor commercial venting and shaft conditions can pull cooking odors or fumes into apartment risers, making floor level and line placement critical for unit air quality.
Heating complaints match a Class C violation for blocked boiler access. Inspectors issued a Class C immediately hazardous violation in May 2026 because access to the heating system locked door at the boiler room was blocked. That site condition sits alongside three building-wide heat and hot water calls between December 2025 and May 2026, plus a defective boiler complaint.
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639 East 169th Street is a 14-unit building in Bronx, New York City (BBL 2029330065). This building is associated with 639 East 169th Street Housing Fund Devel. Brix tracks 37 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1904, this walk-up apartment building sits in Bronx and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 82 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about unsanitary condition.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed September 28, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on September 23, 2025 for $170,000, according to recorded deeds.
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Unit 2C at 639 East 169th Street has 17 open violations.
Unit 5A at 639 East 169th Street has 9 open violations.
Unit 3B at 639 East 169th Street has 4 open violations.
Unit 2A at 639 East 169th Street has 4 open violations.
Unit 4B at 639 East 169th Street has 2 open violations.
Unit 4C at 639 East 169th Street has no violations, last sold in 2020 for $114K.
Unit 5B at 639 East 169th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 1B at 639 East 169th Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
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