1253 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233
1253 Herkimer Street is a three-story, three-unit residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, owned by Adrian Smith and constructed in 1920 as an Old Law Tenement. The building has a significant history of maintenance issues and code violations over the past several years. Most notably, there are currently four open violations related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports with HPD, dating from 2021 through 2024.
In late 2023, a Class C violation was recorded and subsequently closed regarding defective self-closing doors in the third-floor apartment. A cluster of maintenance issues was documented in March 2019, including problems with walls, ceilings, windows, and water leaks, all of which were closed by March 2019. The building has had several important safety-related violations and corrections.
In March 2019, violations were recorded requiring the posting of gas leak procedures and carbon monoxide detector requirements in the lobby, and the repair of a defective smoke detector in Apartment 3 - all of which were certified as corrected by April 2019. A violation from 2019 also required removing encumbrances from the third-story public hall. The building's maintenance history includes three successful rodent inspections (2010, 2014, and 2019), all of which passed. While many past violations have been addressed and closed, the persistent open violations regarding bedbug report filings suggest an ongoing compliance issue that has persisted for several years.
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Building Characteristics
Total units | 3 |
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Year built | 1920 |
Total area | 2700 sq ft |
Floors | 3 |
Tax Abatements | None |
Building Class | OLD LAW TENEMENT |

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