204 Hooper Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

The three-unit residential building at 204 Hooper Street in Williamsburg, owned by Zalman Glavber and dating back to 1899, has experienced several significant maintenance and compliance issues in recent years. Most notably, the property has received consecutive annual violations from 2022 through 2024 (with the most recent in April 2024) for failing to file the required annual bedbug report as mandated by the Housing Maintenance Code. These violations remain open, indicating ongoing non-compliance with this important resident safety requirement.

The building's records also show a history of safety and compliance violations in 2019, which while resolved, demonstrate past challenges with building maintenance. These included a Class B violation concerning defective fire egress in the third-floor apartment (related to obstructing bars or unlawful gates), as well as multiple Class A violations requiring the posting of various safety and building information notices in the public areas. These notices included the need to display the heating system keyholder information, building registration number, certificate of inspection visits, gas leak procedures, and housing information guide availability in both English and Spanish.

While these 2019 violations were certified as closed by mid-March 2019, the persistence of the bedbug reporting violations in more recent years suggests ongoing compliance challenges. The building does not appear to have had any reported bedbug infestations during the 2019-2020 reporting period, with the bedbug report showing zero infested or eradicated units and no re-infestations. However, the open violations regarding bedbug reporting from 2022 onwards suggest a potential ongoing concern, though it's important to note that the lack of previous infestations during the 2019-2020 period may indicate that while the property is currently out of compliance with reporting requirements, there may not necessarily be an active infestation problem at present.