1555 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213

The two-story, three-unit residential building at 1555 Dean Street in Crown Heights, owned by Leonard Baptiste, has experienced several maintenance issues in recent years, particularly from late 2024 to early 2025. During this period, the building received multiple complaints requiring HPD inspections, including plumbing problems with bathtubs/showers, ceiling paint/plaster issues, pest-related unsanitary conditions, wall paint/plaster problems, electrical lighting concerns, and a notable heat/hot water emergency in one apartment.

Unfortunately, in almost all cases, HPD inspectors were unable to complete their inspections, and though some complaints were ultimately closed, they were marked with notices encouraging tenants to submit new service requests if problems persisted. The building has maintained a consistent bedbug-free record from 2020 through 2024, with the most recent bedbug report for the period ending October 2024 showing no infested, eradicated, or re-infested units.

A Department of Buildings complaint from September 2022 regarding work without a permit was investigated and determined to warrant no violations at the time of inspection. The building's rodent inspections show a passed result in 2018, though there was one failed inspection in 2010 for unspecified reasons. Three annual bedbug reporting violations were recorded between 2021 and 2023, though these were administrative in nature and appear to have been resolved, as subsequent reports show no infestation issues.