217 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn, NY 11205

217 Cumberland Street is a four-story, six-unit residential building located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, dating back to 1867. The property has experienced recurring issues with bedbug reporting compliance, having received four Housing Maintenance Code violations between 2021 and 2024 for failing to file the required annual bedbug reports, with the most recent open violation occurring in April 2024.

While previous violations from 2021-2023 have been resolved, the building's bedbug reporting history shows a pattern of non-compliance that warrants attention. The building underwent significant construction-related incidents in 2018, including two Department of Buildings complaints regarding safety concerns.

These complaints, dated August 7 and August 13, 2018, involved unsafe site conditions that endangered workers and inadequate sidewalk shed/scaffold maintenance, with one resulting in an Oath Violation served and the other receiving a Stop Work Order. Additionally, two Environmental Control Board violations were issued in 2018: one concerning unsafe scaffold conditions with inadequate fall protection (penalty imposed: $2,500) and another regarding corroded front facade cornices posing a hazard to occupants and the public (initial penalty of $625). Though the building's bedbug reports for 2019-2021 show no reported infestations, with 0 infested and 0 eradicated units listed in the 2021 and 2022 filings, the current open violations for bedbug reporting non-compliance as of 2024 represent the building's most persistent ongoing issue.