176 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216

176 Jefferson Avenue is a 4-story, 5-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, owned by Randolph Havens and constructed in 1900. The building has undergone several significant violations and inspections over recent years, particularly between 2019 and 2020, when multiple Environmental Control Board (ECB) violations were issued regarding illegal conversions and occupancy. These violations included the conversion of second and third floors into four furnished rooms with key-locked devices, inadequate egress systems, and the lack of a required fire alarm system for transient use.

Among these, there were penalties totaling $12,500 related to unauthorized additional dwelling units and a $5,000 penalty for illegally using permanent dwelling units for non-residential purposes. The most recent violations relate to the annual bedbug reporting requirement, with cases recorded in 2021, 2022, and 2023, though these reports indicated no infested, eradicated, or re-infested dwelling units. The building has maintained a consistent record of passing rodent inspections annually from 2019 through 2025, indicating stable pest control management.

The property has recently been subject to follow-up investigations for illegal conversions in 2025, with violations served in both April and June 2025, suggesting ongoing concerns about unauthorized modifications to the building's layout or unit configuration. While the building has complied with bedbug reporting requirements in recent years, there's notably been no record of actual infestations during these reporting periods. The property's maintenance history shows a mix of both resolved and currently active violations, with the most pressing concerns relating to unauthorized unit conversions and occupancy practices from the 2019-2020 period.