53 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216

53 Mac Donough Street is a two-family house located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, built in 1899 and currently owned by Aviram Chen. The building has experienced recurring issues with water drainage, evidenced by three complaints and associated violations between 2022 and 2023, with the most recent violation in March 2023 resulting in a $1,562 penalty for non-compliance with storm and rainwater drainage requirements.

An active violation from December 2022 notes multiple exterior building concerns including defective, broken, and spalling walls, particularly around the first-floor front entry, as well as issues with the rear yard roof drain impacting the neighboring property at 55 Mac Donough Street. While there was one complaint in 2020 regarding illegal commercial use in a residential zone, no violations were found at the time of inspection. The property has maintained a generally positive record regarding pest control in recent years, with no reported bedbug infestations in the past two reporting periods (2023-2024 and 2024-2025), and consistent passing results in rodent inspections.

There was one instance of rat activity noted in May 2023, but subsequent inspections between 2023 and 2025 have all passed. The building's most recent permit, issued in July 2020, was related to plumbing work. The property has undergone multiple inspections for both bedbugs and rodents, showing an active effort to monitor and maintain pest control standards, with nine consecutive passing results for rodent inspections since November 2022 and no bedbug infestations reported in the last two years.