511A Monroe Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221

The three-unit, three-story residential building at 511A Monroe Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, built in 1899 and currently owned by Prashanth Rayapudi, has experienced several significant maintenance issues and violations over the past few years that warrant attention. Most notably, in early 2023, there was a heat and hot water emergency complaint filed on January 31, though HPD was unable to access the building for inspection.

The building has documented multiple safety-related violations, including two fire safety issues in January 2023 involving defective fire retardant materials in the cellar ceilings, and several access and security concerns in 2022 such as defective self-closing doors at both the front and vestibule entrances, and an obstruction of egress from fire escapes involving flower pots on the 3rd-story balcony. The property also had two annual bedbug reports filed between 2021-2022, though all indicated zero infested units, and the most recent rodent inspection in July 2024 resulted in a passing grade, following a previous failure in October 2018. The building's history includes a complaint about illegal conversion in August 2022, though inspectors were unable to gain access for verification.

Multiple permits for plumbing and electrical work were issued between 2018-2021, with the most recent activity suggesting proper maintenance and improvement of building systems. The property has demonstrated compliance with bedbug reporting requirements for the past three years (2021-2024), consistently showing zero infestation cases. While the building has experienced various maintenance issues over the years, most violations recorded between 2022-2023 have been closed, indicating they were addressed, though the inability for inspectors to gain access in certain instances raises some concern about verification of compliance.