137 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

137 North 8th Street in Williamsburg is a 4-story, 8-unit Old Law Tenement building constructed in 1900 and currently owned by Steven Ancona. The building's history reveals several maintenance and safety issues, particularly during 2020 when multiple violations were documented.

Most notably, there was a building-wide heat and hot water issue in February 2020 that warranted emergency housing maintenance code complaints, along with individual unit violations in apartment 3R related to hot water, smoke detector, and carbon monoxide detector problems. A self-closing door issue was recorded in October 2020 for apartment 6, and in February 2020, several safety concerns were identified, including defective fire egress and problems with an iron ladder to the roof scuttle opening. The building has undergone regular inspections for bedbug reporting compliance, with the most recent filings in April 2024 and June 2023 showing zero infested units, though violations for failure to file the annual bedbug report were recorded in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

A Department of Buildings complaint regarding unauthorized plumbing work was filed in February 2020, though inspectors were unable to gain access during their final attempt in April 2020. While many of the 2020 violations were eventually closed, including safety repairs completed in April 2020, the building's record shows a consistent pattern of maintenance issues requiring attention, particularly during the 2020 period. The most recent bedbug reports indicate successful eradication efforts and compliance with reporting requirements.