53 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233

The three-story, 2-unit building at 53 Rockaway Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Gregory Canning, has a documented history of pest-related issues and regulatory non-compliance that warrants attention. Most recently, in August 2024, there was a reported unsanitary condition involving pests, though this complaint was ultimately closed with no violations found by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). However, the building has accumulated multiple open Housing Maintenance Code violations over the past five years, including annual bedbug report filing violations for 2021-2024.

A significant cluster of active Department of Buildings (DOB) violations is also recorded, with five separate citations issued between 2023-2024 for failure to file external low-pressure inspections from 2018-2023, and a 2019 violation related to boiler inspection non-compliance. The property also experienced a pest-related inspection in February 2018, which passed, alongside various other maintenance issues. These included a 2020 violation for removing encumbrances in the first-story public hall and a 2018 violation regarding defective paving in the front area of the first story.

While a construction-related complaint from June 2019 resulted in a stop work order, this was fully rescinded by July 2019. The building's maintenance record shows both regular inspections and occasional lapses in compliance with necessary filings, particularly regarding bedbug reporting and pressure system maintenance. Two rodent inspections conducted in February 2017 and 2018 were passed successfully.