853 Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213

The two-story, four-unit New Law Tenement building at 853 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, owned by Lloyd King and constructed in 1925, has maintained a generally good compliance record with health and safety regulations. While there have been three documented rodent sightings in the past two years (2024 and 2025), each incident was promptly investigated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which found no violations and confirmed that the property passed inspection.

The building has also consistently passed multiple rodent inspections, with the most recent one on April 10, 2025 showing no issues. The property has experienced recurring violations related to bedbug reporting requirements, with Notices of Violation issued in 2021, 2022, and 2023, though these were primarily administrative in nature.

Notably, the building's bedbug reporting history from 2019 through 2024 shows no actual infestations, with each annual report indicating zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested units. An illegal conversion complaint was filed in January 2021, but the inspector was unable to gain access to verify the claims. The building has had regular permits issued, including an electrical work permit in December 2022, and generally demonstrates proactive maintenance of its systems, as evidenced by passing multiple inspections for both rodents and bedbug reporting requirements over the past several years.