166 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216

The three-story, four-unit residential building at 166 Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Aviram Chen, has experienced recurring heat and hot water issues over the past three years, with three documented complaints in December 2022, October 2024, and most recently in January 2025. The 2022 incident affected the entire building, while the more recent complaints were limited to individual apartments.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) was unable to gain access to the building for inspection during the 2022 and 2025 complaints, though access was granted or indicated to be available during the 2024 incident. The building has maintained active compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, with no confirmed infestations reported in the past three years (as of July 2025). However, there were three Housing Maintenance Code violations related to bedbug reporting requirements between 2021 and 2023, all of which have been closed.

The property has demonstrated consistent rodent control efforts, with six consecutive passing inspections from 2022 to 2025, though there were some documented rat activity issues in 2021-2022 that required bait application and follow-up inspections. An illegal conversion complaint was filed in June 2022, but HPD inspectors were unable to gain access to the building on two attempts in January 2023. While the building's overall maintenance record shows efforts to address various issues, the recurring nature of heat and hot water complaints, along with the difficulty in obtaining access for inspections, suggests ongoing challenges with building systems maintenance.