63 Somers Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

The three-story, two-family house at 63 Somers Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Yossi Yaacov, has experienced several notable issues in recent years, with the most significant cluster of problems occurring in January 2019. During that month, the building faced multiple emergency complaints regarding heat/hot water issues, electrical power outages, and heavy water leakage, though Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) inspectors were unable to gain access to verify these conditions.

The property has been subject to three separate rodent-related complaints in 2021, with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) conducting inspections, though one of the inspections did not reveal any violations, and subsequent inspections in 2018 had passed. The building's permit records show activity in 2019 and 2020, with multiple emergency work permits (EW) issued under job number 321982280. The rodent situation appears to have had some persistence, with inspections revealing rat activity as recently as February 2017, though inspections in June 2018 and December 2018 showed no violations.

A single Department of Buildings complaint in October 2019 regarding permit issues was resolved with no violation found upon inspection. The available data shows a pattern of infrastructure-related complaints in early 2019, followed by a series of rodent complaints in mid-2021, though subsequent rodent inspections indicate improved conditions. While the building has experienced multiple maintenance issues, the inability of inspectors to gain access during several complaint investigations has limited their ability to verify the reported conditions directly.