776 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238

The 10-unit, 4-story Old Law Tenement building at 776 Classon Avenue in Crown Heights, owned by Mordechai Landau, has experienced recurring rodent issues over the past several years, with the most recent spike in activity occurring between 2023 and 2025. The building has recorded at least eight confirmed instances of rodent sightings or signs of rodent activity since late 2023, with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) consistently finding violations that required follow-up inspections.

Between September 2024 and June 2025, multiple bait applications were conducted, though inspections continued to show rat activity, indicating persistent infestation challenges. The building also has one active Department of Buildings violation from June 2023 regarding an unfiled external low-pressure inspection from 2018.

Despite these challenges, the building has maintained a consistent record of bedbug prevention compliance, with all six required bedbug reports filed between 2019 and 2025 showing zero infested units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units. In terms of housing maintenance code violations, the building received one notice in February 2022 regarding the need to file an annual bedbug report, though this seems to have been addressed in subsequent filings. The property did pass its initial rodent inspection in July 2023 and in March 2021, suggesting intermittent successful management of some pest control efforts, though these successes appear not to have been sustained given the subsequent repeat violations.