918 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216

918 Sterling Place is a 6-unit, 4-story converted New Law tenement building located in Crown Heights, constructed in 1897 and currently owned by Herber Garcia. The building has experienced several maintenance issues over recent years, most notably a power outage in 2023 and unsanitary conditions related to garbage/recycling storage in 2022, both of which were investigated by HPD with no violations found. A concerning pattern of accessibility issues was documented in early 2019, when multiple complaints regarding heat/hot water, paint/plaster problems, and a broken window guard could not be properly inspected due to lack of access to apartments.

While the building experienced heating system challenges, with several emergency heat/hot water complaints in January-February 2019, these were eventually addressed and closed. More recent records show improved pest control management, with the building achieving passing results in rodent inspections conducted in 2023 and 2024. The property has maintained a clean bedbug record, with no infested units reported in the mandatory annual bedbug reports filed between 2021 and 2024.

The most recent violation, related to filing the annual bedbug report in 2024, was marked as closed. The building's overall violation history shows a pattern of maintenance issues primarily in 2019, with fewer and less severe complaints in subsequent years. The property has also specific complaints about general conditions including wall and ceiling damage, though these too were primarily concentrated in 2019 with relatively few recent issues.