656 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

The four-story, eight-unit Old Law Tenement building at 656 Carroll Street in Park Slope, owned by Michael Repucci and constructed in 1920, has experienced several recurring maintenance issues over the past five years. The most concerning ongoing matter involves an open violation regarding the failure to file annual bedbug reports, with violations issued in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 under Housing Maintenance Code Class A violations.

The building has also faced rodent challenges, with repeated inspections and bait applications between 2021 and 2022, showing periods of both rat activity (2021) and compliance (2021, 2018). The property has a history of non-compliance with mandatory equipment inspections, as evidenced by violations issued in 2019 and 2023 for failure to file external low-pressure and boiler inspection reports, though both were subsequently dismissed.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene was involved in investigating rodent complaints in 2021 (with some inspections showing rat activity) and asbestos complaints in 2019, though the rodent inspection results from 2021-2022 indicate some level of pest control intervention through bait application. While the building shows some responsiveness to violations through permit applications (issued in February 2019 for plumbing and electrical work), the recurring nature of bedbug report violations across multiple years is particularly notable, and the rodent issues appear to have required ongoing management interventions.