244 Sumpter Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

244 Sumpter Street is a 3-story, 6-unit residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, owned by Victor Carella and constructed in 1909 as a New Law tenement. The building has experienced several notable maintenance issues in recent years, with the most serious being a 2024 indoor air quality complaint involving human feces, which resulted in a DOHMH advisory. In October 2023, multiple complaints were filed and investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), resulting in both violations and non-violations across various issues including flooring damage, pest infestations, and general maintenance problems.

Affected units notably include Apartment 3L, which received multiple violation notices in October 2023 for issues including roach infestation, plumbing problems, and damaged tiles. There have also been consistent concerns with public area maintenance, including multiple citations in 2023 for defective doors and encumbrances in hallways. The building has been subject to various emergency and non-emergency maintenance issues over the past few years, including safety concerns such as a broken window guard (July 2023) and multiple reports of unsanitary conditions.

However, it is worth noting that the building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations since 2019, with no reported cases in any of the eight consecutive annual filings. While rodent inspections have shown some rat activity (most recently in October 2022) and multiple compliance failures in previous years (2013 and 2015), these issues appear to have been managed, with no recent violations recorded. The building's maintenance history suggests ongoing challenges with both unit-specific and common area maintenance, though many of the most recent violations have been addressed or closed.