239 Skillman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11205

239 Skillman Street is a 15-unit, 4-story residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, constructed in 2010 and currently owned by Tobias Levi. The building has experienced recurrent heat and hot water issues, particularly during the summer of 2020, with multiple emergency complaints filed through HPD between June and August 2020, some of which resulted in violations. These heating system problems appear to have continued into 2021, with two additional complaints filed in February and January 2021, though inspections were unable to confirm the conditions.

The building underwent multiple housing maintenance code inspections in 2020-2021, revealing various issues including a defective smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector in Apartment 2, excessive summer heat complaints, and door issues. Three violations were issued regarding the failure to file annual bedbug reports in April 2021, though these were subsequently dismissed. More recently, from 2022 through 2025, the bedbug reporting compliance has shown no infested units, with the most recent filings (2025) indicating zero units affected, suggesting effective pest management. Additional building history shows several inspections between 2020-2021 for door/window issues and water leaks, though HPD often could not gain access to verify the problems.

The Department of Buildings records from late 2021 indicate some failure to comply with energy efficiency reporting requirements, though these violations were dismissed following successful challenges. There remains one open violation from July 2020 regarding the posting of heating system keyholder information. The building's heating system issues during 2020-2021, while troubling, appear to have been adequately addressed more recently, as evidenced by the absence of similar complaints in the past two years. The consistent reporting of zero bedbug incidents since 2022 demonstrates active management of this potential issue.