273 Sumpter Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

The three-story New Law tenement at 273 Sumpter Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Yongning Shao, has experienced significant maintenance issues in recent years, particularly affecting its second-floor apartment. From April to June 2023, the building received multiple Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) complaints and violations, including plumbing issues (toilet problems), various problems with walls (paint/plaster), and window-related concerns.

The most substantial cluster of violations centers on apartment 2, where inspections in June 2023 revealed multiple problems including a broken kitchen window pane, defective bathroom tiles, missing washbasin, broken carbon monoxide detector, damaged plaster/paint surfaces in both the kitchen and a room, leaky toilet flush pipe connection, and a malfunctioning smoke detector. These violations are currently listed as open, suggesting they have not yet been resolved.

Further complicating the building's maintenance record, there is an open bedbug reporting violation from April 2024 regarding the failure to file the annual bedbug report, and the same issue is mentioned in a March 2023 violation. Despite these ongoing issues, the building has maintained some level of compliance in recent years, with no recorded bedbug infestations in the two previous reporting periods (2018-2020), and it passed a rodent inspection in November 2016. The pattern of violations and complaints suggests persistent maintenance challenges, particularly related to the building's interior condition and safety systems, though some issues have been addressed while others remain outstanding.