170 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216

The three-story, two-family townhouse at 170 Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Townhouse Rental, LLC, has experienced several notable events over the past few years. The most recent concerns have centered around rodent activity, with three rat-related complaints filed between March 2023 and June 2024.

While inspections were conducted in response to these complaints, they typically resulted in only minor violations or were part of multiple complaints being addressed simultaneously. The building has also faced access-related issues with inspections in 2023-2024: there were denied access situations during investigations of an illegal conversion complaint and a gas utility referral, both of which were eventually closed without violations being found at the time of inspection.

Prior to these recent issues, the property had documented construction safety concerns in 2022, including complaints about site conditions endangering workers and defects in a sidewalk shed/scaffold, though these were resolved with a stop-work order being fully rescinded by July 2022. Notably, the building's bedbug reporting record for the past two filing periods (2022-2024) shows no infestation issues, with zero units reported as infested, eradicated, or re-infested. The building, constructed in 1901, has a generally mixed inspection history with some tenant safety concerns, though many recent complaints have been addressed promptly through required inspections.