602 44th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220

The four-story, 28-unit New Law Tenement building at 602 44th Street in Sunset Park, owned by Gail Schattner and constructed in 1910, has experienced several concerning issues in recent years. Most notably, from late 2024 through 2025, the building faced multiple heat and hot water problems, with emergency complaints filed for both apartment-specific and building-wide inadequacies in March 2025, and another incident in December 2024. The property also has persistent plumbing issues, particularly concerning water supply systems, with multiple complaints filed between December 2024 and March 2025.

Recent building conditions have included reports of pests, with a March 2025 complaint for unsanitary conditions, though HPD inspectors were unable to gain access to verify these issues during inspections. The building has documented rodent activity, with inspections in March 2025 and March 2024 showing evidence of rats, though earlier inspections from 2019 through 2021 had passed. Multiple violations have been recorded for self-closing doors, with findings in June 2024 noting issues at both the front entrance and first-story vestibule, all of which were subsequently closed.

Notable improvements include the building's bedbug reporting history, which shows no infestation cases reported in the past three years (2022-2025). Recent access issues have been a recurring theme, with multiple HPD inspection attempts being unsuccessful due to lack of entry access, particularly for complaints filed in 2024 and 2025 regarding heat, hot water, and plumbing problems. The building has maintained regular bedbug monitoring with zero cases reported through its inspections from 2021 to 2025, and the most recent inspection in 2025 did not reveal any active infestations.