78 Congress Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

78 Congress Street is a 4-story, 12-unit residential building located in Brooklyn's Columbia Street neighborhood, owned by Frank Giuliano and constructed in 1920 as an Old Law Tenement. The building has a concerning pattern of bedbug report violations, with four open Housing Maintenance Code violations from 2021 through 2024, all citing failure to file the required annual bedbug report as per HPD rules, though these violations appear administrative rather than indicative of an ongoing infestation problem.

In recent years, there have been three consecutive complaints about unauthorized work in the occupied multiple dwelling in the latter part of 2023 (in September and December), all of which resulted in inspectors being unable to gain access to the property on their second final attempt. Prior to these, there was one complaint regarding site conditions endangering workers in October 2022, which resulted in no violations being found at the time of inspection.

Looking further back, similar complaints about unauthorized work in the occupied multiple dwelling were made in 2020, 2019, and the 2019 complaints regarding required permits, though none resulted in violations according to inspection records. While the open bedbug report violations are notable, it's important to recognize that none of the complaints regarding unauthorized work resulted in confirmed violations when inspections were conducted, though the repeated inability to access the property raises some concern about inspection cooperation.