455 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233

The 4-story, 8-unit tenement building at 455 Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Joseph Memoly, has shown a pattern of maintenance issues over the past several years. Most recently, in 2025, there has been a slow water leak issue that HPD was unable to inspect fully, and prior to that, there were three notable incidents involving building systems and appliances: a refrigerator complaint in 2024, a sink plumbing issue in late 2023 that was classified as an emergency, and a heat/hot water problem affecting an individual apartment in late 2023.

The building experienced several similar issues between 2020-2024, including another refrigerator complaint, an entire building hot water outage, and an unsanitary garbage storage situation in 2020 which resulted in violations due to inadequate waste receptacles. The property has maintained good standing with regard to pest control, with no reported bedbug infestations in the past five reporting periods from 2020-2024, and all recent annual bedbug reports were filed as required.

The building underwent a low-pressure inspection in 2020, though a violation was issued in 2023 for failure to file the 2020 report which was subsequently dismissed. Rigorous rodent inspections have been conducted in 2022, 2024, and most recently in 2025, all resulting in passing grades, indicating effective pest management practices. The building's maintenance history reveals a mix of resolved and recurring maintenance issues, with particular attention needed to address water-related problems based on the most recent complaints.