316 Patchen Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233

316 Patchen Avenue is an 8-unit, 3-story New Law Tenement building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and owned by Mordechai Schwimer. The building, constructed in 1930, has experienced several significant maintenance issues over the past few years. Most notably, there were heat and hot water outages affecting the entire building in September 2021, which were ultimately resolved but required tenant complaints to HPD.

In 2024, a door-related issue prompted a service request that was addressed within two days. The building has undergone multiple inspections and corrections related to fire safety, including a 2022 citation for a lockable handle on a fire egress window in Apartment 1A, and violations concerning defective self-closing doors at the first-floor public hall and basement boiler room, all of which were certified as corrected by March 2022. The property has generally maintained good pest control records, with no reported bedbug infestations in the past four years, as evidenced by the bedbug reports from 2021 through 2025.

Rodent control measures have shown improvement, with the most recent inspections in 2024 and 2025 passing, though there was one instance of rat activity noted in December 2022. The building's violation history from 2021-2022 included several fire safety-related issues, such as obstructed fire escapes on the second-story balcony, which were all addressed. The most recent HPD inspections in 2024 and 2025 have maintained an overall positive outcome, with no major violations recorded in the past year.