149 Clifton Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

The 5-story, 4-unit residential building at 149 Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, owned by Julia Muldoon and constructed in 2016, has experienced several notable health and maintenance issues over recent years. Most concerning is a March 2024 incident involving potentially harmful drinking water, though investigations by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found no health code violations or hazards.

The building has persistent regulatory challenges, specifically regarding bedbug reporting compliance, having received Housing Maintenance Code violations in 2022, 2023, and 2024 for failing to submit the required annual bedbug report, though a 2021 violation for this same issue was eventually closed. The building's rodent inspection history shows a troubling pattern, with multiple instances of "Rat Activity" recorded between 2021 and 2025, including five such occurrences in 2024 alone. While there have been several successful passing inspections for rodent issues, those have often been followed by new violations, indicating ongoing struggles with pest control.

The most recent inspections from early 2025 show some improvements, with rat activity not detected during the July 10 and January 16 inspections, and another building-wide rat activity instance recorded in August 2024 suggesting some sporadic control measures may be having an effect. The building's bedbug reporting history presents a somewhat puzzling situation, as the 2019-2020 reporting period indicated no infested or re-infested units, though this has not resolved the ongoing violation notices. The combination of water quality concerns, pest control challenges, and bedbug reporting compliance issues suggests the building management has faced multiple difficulties maintaining required health and safety standards, though recent inspections indicate some potential for improvement in addressing these persistent problems.