257 North 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

257 North 7th Street is a four-story, nine-unit old law tenement building constructed in 1900 and currently owned by Joel Mizrahi. The property has experienced several significant maintenance issues in recent years, most notably two significant infrastructure failures in February 2025 involving both a power outage and a complete loss of heat and hot water, which were addressed but required additional follow-up inspections by HPD.

The building has a documented history of at least three emergency plumbing issues, including a water supply problem in March 2019. Recent inspections have revealed continued compliance challenges, with the most recent violation recorded in April 2024 relating to failure to file the 2023 external low-pressure inspection report, which was subsequently dismissed. The property has undergone significant construction activity in recent years, with multiple Department of Buildings (DOB) complaints and violations during 2023 related to construction safety compliance, sidewalk shed maintenance, and worker safety conditions.

These included concerns about inadequate scaffold maintenance, missing protection for adjacent buildings during construction, and various safety violations that led to several stop-work orders, all of which were eventually rescinded. Notably, the building has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with zero reported cases in six consecutive annual reports from 2019 to 2024, and has also shown compliance with rodent inspections, passing three recent evaluations between 2009 and 2010. While the building's recent history shows regular maintenance issues typical of an older structure, the documented bedbug-free status and completion of required construction safety violations are positive indicators of management responsiveness, though the multiple infrastructure failures in early 2025 raise concerns about building systems reliability.