104 St James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

104 St James Place is a 4-story, 3-unit residential building constructed in 1874, currently owned by Renrick Hutchinson, situated in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The property has a concerning pattern of open Housing Maintenance Code violations related to bedbug reporting requirements, with four consecutive violations from 2021 through 2024, all citing failure to file the mandatory annual bedbug report as required by HPD rules.

While these violations are administrative in nature, their persistent occurrence suggests potential oversight in pest management protocols. The building experienced a rat sighting in September 2022, though this incident was investigated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and resulted in a passed inspection with no violations found. Additionally, a rodent inspection conducted in September 2022 also passed, indicating some level of rodent control compliance.

The building's record shows a mixture of passed inspections and open violations, with the most significant being the bedbug reporting noncompliance that has remained unresolved over multiple years. While no active pest issues have been documented in recent inspections (with the last rodent sighting occurring in 2022), the repeated bedbug report violation raises questions about the building's overall pest management practices. The property has maintained its historical structure as a Class A building, and despite its age, has passed various health inspections, though the persistence of the bedbug report violation pattern is noteworthy.