135 St James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

135 St. James Place is a historic four-story, four-unit building located in Clinton Hill, constructed in 1860 and currently owned by Barry Leon. The property has recently faced several concerning issues, most notably a safety-related complaint about smoke detectors in March 2025 to which inspectors could not gain access, and multiple sanitation-related complaints regarding garbage and recycling storage in recent years.

The building has open violations related to failure to file required annual bedbug reports for multiple years between 2021 and 2024, which poses potential health concerns. Additionally, there are active violations for not completing mandatory external low-pressure inspections between 2018 and 2023, suggesting possible safety equipment neglect. The building's maintenance history reveals some recurring issues that impact resident quality of life.

There have been multiple complaints about door conditions in 2019, though no violations were found during inspections. A rodent-related complaint was filed in 2018, and while past inspections in 2011-2012 indicated some rodent activity, recent records do not show ongoing infestation issues. The property has also experienced challenges with waste management, as evidenced by multiple sanitary condition complaints regarding garbage storage in 2022 and 2025, some of which resulted in violations. Despite these issues, there have been instances of proper maintenance and compliance, such as the resolution of earlier door-related complaints and passing of some health inspections.