199 Hewes Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

199 Hewes Street is a 4-unit, 4-story old law tenement building located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, built in 1910 and currently owned by Joe Redek. The building's maintenance record from 2019 to 2025 reveals several significant safety and compliance issues, particularly concerning fire escape safety in 2021 when violations were recorded for defective handrails and a broken drop ladder on the second-story rear fire escape.

That same year, the building received violations for unauthorized household items in public hallways. Earlier in 2019, the property was cited for multiple safety notice violations, including the need to post requirements for smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and gas leak procedures in common areas, along with the requirement to display housing information guides and the building's registration number. More recently, the building has demonstrated improved compliance with bedbug reporting requirements, with the most recent annual filings from 2022-2024 showing zero infested or previously infested units.

The property has maintained consistent bedbug-free status throughout the reporting period, with regular annual filings and no noted infestations or eradications. The most recent bedbug report from December 2024 shows no infestation history for the previous filing period (November 2023 - October 2024), indicating successful maintenance of this particular pest control program. The historical inspection data suggests the building has addressed its past violations, as all listed violations from 2019-2021 have been marked as "Close," though it should be noted that the specified "certified date" for many violations indicates when they were officially acknowledged as resolved, which may not reflect the actual resolution timeline.