196 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

196 Sackett Street is a 4-story, 8-unit old law tenement building constructed in 1931 in Carroll Gardens, currently owned by Ben Soleimani. The building has experienced several maintenance issues over the past few years, with the most significant concerns arising in late 2019 when multiple complaints were filed within a short period, including emergency reports of cooking gas issues, plumbing problems (basin/sink), door/window defects, and various appliance and structural concerns.

These led to multiple Housing Maintenance Code violations in apartment 2R, specifically regarding inadequate gas supply, missing electrical outlet covers, broken floor tiles, and door issues, though many of these violations were certified as corrected by February 2020. More recently, the building has two active Department of Buildings violations from 2023 and 2024 regarding the failure to file required external low-pressure inspections, though these are not directly related to resident safety or habitability.

The property has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with all annual reports from 2019 through 2025 showing zero infested units, and passing an initial rodent inspection in July 2018. While the building has had maintenance issues requiring attention, particularly in the 2019-2020 period, there have been no significant resident complaints or reported infestations in recent years, with no major emergencies reported in the past three years.