246 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

246 Vanderbilt Avenue is a four-story, 16-unit Old Law Tenement building located in Fort Greene, constructed in 1930 and currently owned by Randy Gitli. The building's recent history shows several important maintenance and compliance issues, most notably a heating and hot water emergency complaint in December 2020 that affected the entire building.

While the Department of Housing Preservation and Development was unable to gain access to inspect the reported conditions, this incident raises concerns about building systems reliability. Additionally, the property has experienced two Housing Maintenance Code violations in 2022 and 2023 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports as required by HPD regulations, though no active violations are currently noted. On a positive note, the building has demonstrated effective pest management in recent years, with all bedbug reporting periods from 2019 through 2025 showing zero infested dwelling units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units.

The most recent bedbug report filing in January 2025 confirmed this continued absence of infestation for the period between November 2023 and October 2024. The building's bedbug-free status has been consistently maintained for over five years, indicating successful pest control measures. While the heating system complaint from 2020 and the bedbug reporting violations in 2022 and 2023 are noteworthy, the building has shown recent compliance with bedbug reporting requirements and maintained an infestation-free status.