4013 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

Small 5th Avenue walk-up with long-term individual ownership, sitting directly on a busy Sunset Park retail strip.

A four-unit Sunset Park walk-up with ground-floor retail, held under head officer Seetharaman Chinnasamy since June 1997. The building itself maintains a thin operational record, but the surrounding 5th Avenue commercial strip is lively and dense. Three things to know:

Ground-floor food and commercial operations spill noise and kitchen venting into the block. 15 food establishment complaints were logged within three blocks over the trailing year, paired with 116 commercial noise calls mostly flagging loud music from storefronts. On a commercial corridor like 5th Avenue, restaurant venting, kitchen fumes, and street-level noise tend to bleed directly into lower-floor residential windows.

Street sanitation and garbage placement concentrate along the avenue. 237 maintenance and facility complaints were logged within three blocks over the last 12 months, driven by 97 outdoor garbage reports and 71 structural or outdoor issues, along with 28 rodent sightings. The building itself carries no open violations, but sidewalk sanitation on the retail strip is an ongoing factor.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 95 illegal parking complaints logged within three blocks over the last 12 months
• 16 cannabis retailer calls recorded within three blocks over the past year
• Seetharaman Chinnasamy has been listed on title documents since June 1997

4013 5th Avenue is a 4-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3009170005). This building is associated with Bilas, Sam. Brix tracks 8 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1922, this mixed-use building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• (A) § HMC:FILE ANNUAL BEDBUG REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HPD RULE AS DESCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THIS NOTICE OF VIOLATION OR AS DESCRIBED ON HPDS WEBSITE, WWW
• §27-2107 ADM CODE OWNER FAILED TO FILE A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY ADM CODE §27-2097 AND IS THEREFORE SUBJECT TO CIVIL PEN

The building last changed hands on April 23, 2021, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 43/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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