867 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221

The three-unit, three-story brownstone at 867 Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, built in 1899 and currently owned by Omabuwa Binitie, has experienced consistent challenges with compliance to housing maintenance codes over recent years. Most notably, the building has accumulated four open violations between 2021 and 2024 related to the failure to file the required annual bedbug reports with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

These unresolved bedbug report violations, which carry potential implications for resident comfort and safety, are particularly concerning given their persistence over multiple years, with the most recent open violation noted in April 2024. On a more positive note, the building has maintained generally good conditions regarding rodent inspections, passing all but one inspection since 2019.

The sole recorded instance of rat activity occurred in October 2023; however, the building successfully passed subsequent rodent inspections in April 2024, October 2024, and most recently in April 2025. This pattern suggests responsive management to pest control issues, though the presence of rodent activity in 2023 indicates it was not entirely free from this challenge at that time. The property's overall record shows regular attention to rodent management, with multiple successful inspections in recent years, contrasting with the persistent bedbug report compliance issues which remain unresolved as of mid-2025.