60 Somers Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

60 Somers Street is a 3-unit, 3-story residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and owned by 60 Somers St LLC. The building, constructed in 1899, has experienced several significant issues in recent years, most notably regarding unauthorized alterations and sanitary conditions. Between 2020 and 2021, the property faced multiple emergency complaints regarding mold issues, though no violations were issued upon inspection by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

More critically, there are several active Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations from 2021 totaling $37,500 in penalties related to unauthorized occupancy and construction work in the cellar area, including an illegal apartment conversion with bathroom facilities and plumbing connections, which led to a Partial Vacate Order being served in September 2021. The building has also failed to file required annual bedbug reports between 2022 and 2024, maintaining three open Class A violations for this noncompliance. While historical inspections showed the building passed rodent inspections in 2017 and 2018, two inspections in 2010 had compliance failures for unspecified reasons. A construction enforcement complaint from July 2021 regarding illegal conversion resulted in a partial vacate order, suggesting significant concerns about unauthorized modifications to the building's structure and systems.

The building's recent history raises considerable concerns about maintenance and regulatory compliance. While there were no violations issued for the mold complaints between 2020-2021, the recurring nature of these complaints and the subsequent illegal modifications to the building's structure suggest ongoing maintenance challenges. The active ECB violations from 2021 related to unauthorized occupancy and construction work represent the most pressing regulatory issue, as do the recent failures to file bedbug reports, though no infestations were reported in the last known filing period (2019-2020). The combination of plumbing modifications, unauthorized occupancy, and failure to comply with housing maintenance requirements paints a picture of a building facing significant regulatory oversight challenges, though some of these issues date back to the 2021-2022 period.