1159 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216

The four-story, 13-unit tenement building at 1159 Dean Street in Crown Heights, built in 1909 and currently owned by Nathan Schwarcz, has experienced several notable maintenance issues over the past two years. Most recently, in April 2025, there was a complaint regarding an electric/gas range that HPD was unable to inspect. Throughout 2023, the building faced multiple electrical issues, including power outages, wiring problems, and lighting failures in August, all of which were investigated but resulted in no violations.

The property has also dealt with significant pest control challenges, with multiple complaints in 2023 regarding unsanitary conditions and pest infestations, particularly affecting the basement apartment, where violations for mold and rodent issues were issued in July 2023. The building's safety systems have been under scrutiny, with violations documented in March 2023 regarding defective smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in apartment 4B. Fire safety concerns were noted in September 2023, when violations were issued regarding obstructed fire escape egress and self-closing door mechanisms.

While the building's management has maintained compliance with rodent inspections in 2024 and 2025, earlier inspections in 2023 revealed rat activity. The property has had some regulatory oversights, with violations issued in 2023 for failure to file external low-pressure inspection reports for 2018 and 2019, though these were later dismissed. Notably, there have been no reported bedbug infestations in the building since 2020, according to the NYC bedbug reporting system, and recent rodent inspections in 2025 have passed without issue, suggesting some improvement in pest management.