282 Mac Dougal Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

282 Mac Dougal Street is a 3-story, 6-unit New Law tenement building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Joseph Waters and constructed in 1907. The building has experienced recurring issues with essential services, particularly evident in 2024 with simultaneous reports of power outages and slow water leaks, though HPD was unable to gain access for inspections in these cases. A significant cluster of problems occurred in January 2019 when multiple heat and hot water complaints were filed, affecting both individual apartments and the entire building.

Earlier issues from 2019 include a radiator plumbing problem that was categorized as an emergency. More recently, in 2023, the building underwent several inspections revealing various safety concerns that were subsequently addressed, including the replacement of missing balustrades at public hall stairs, securing a loose push bar at the roof bulkhead door, and repairing eroded mortar joints in the air shaft walls. The building has maintained an active record of compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, with no infestations reported in the past four filing periods between 2021 and 2024.

Rodent inspections from 2011 through 2020 show mostly passing results, with only two initial failures noted in 2011 and 2012, and subsequent compliance passed in those areas. The property has had consistent documentation of addressing housing maintenance code violations, with the most recent inspections in 2023 and 2024 showing attention to various safety and maintenance requirements. Notable recent violations included the need to post heating system access information and repair building safety features, all of which have been marked closed following appropriate remedial actions.