471 Keap Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

471 Keap Street is a 4-story, 13-unit residential building in Williamsburg, constructed in 1910 and owned by Martin Jacobs. The property has experienced several maintenance issues in recent years, with particularly notable problems in early 2025, including heating/hot water complaints, steam pipe/riser issues, and ventilation system violations. Multiple inspection attempts were made by HPD in January 2025, but inspectors were often unable to complete their evaluations due to access issues.

The building has a history of infrastructure challenges, as evidenced by multiple plumbing and electrical complaints between January and April 2025, for which HPD inspectors could not gain access to complete their evaluations. Prior to this, in April 2022, the building experienced pest control issues requiring immediate attention, including an infestation in Apartment 1A. The building's maintenance history reveals a pattern of unresolved access issues during inspections, with multiple instances between January-April 2025 involving ventilation systems, plumbing, electrical, and door/window concerns.

In terms of safety and fire systems, significant violations were documented in 2012 related to apartment 3E, including issues with smoke detectors and the need for a carbon monoxide detecting device, though these appear to have been certified as resolved by 2021. The property's record shows regular bedbug reporting between 2019 and 2024, with no reported infestations in the past six cycles, and it successfully passed a rodent inspection in December 2018, suggesting some improvement in pest management. Various Department of Buildings violations were recorded in 2020 and 2021, though both were resolved.