397 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

The three-story, two-unit residential building at 397 9th Street in Park Slope, owned by Michael Silverman, was constructed in 1899 and is classified as a HERETOFORE CONVERTED CLASS B property. The building has experienced several notable maintenance issues in recent years, most significantly with rodent problems, as evidenced by multiple complaints to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in 2022, including rat sightings in August and September of that year.

While the property passed a rodent inspection in October 2022 and a subsequent investigation in August 2022 found no violations, the building has continued to face regulatory scrutiny. Two Housing Maintenance Code (HMC) violations were recorded in 2023: in March, the building failed to file its annual bedbug report as required, a violation which was later closed, and in December, a violation was noted regarding inadequate lighting at the front entranceway, specifically requiring a 100-watt light to be maintained from sunset to sunrise.

This lighting issue was subsequently certified as corrected in late December 2023. The building's bedbug reporting history shows consistent compliance with no reported infestations in the last two filing periods (2022-2023 and 2020-2021), with zero infested dwelling units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units reported in the most recent filing dated December 2023.