65 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222

The 8-unit, 4-story old law tenement building at 65 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint, owned by William Chambers and constructed in 1928, has experienced several notable maintenance issues and violations over recent years. Most concerning are three active Department of Buildings violations from April 2023 related to failure to file required external low-pressure inspections for 2019, 2020, and 2022.

The building also faced a heating emergency in January 2022, when the HPD was unable to gain access to verify complaints about lack of heat and hot water throughout the entire building. While the building has passed recent rodent inspections in May 2023 and July 2017, a rat sighting complaint was filed in May 2023, though no violations were found during the subsequent DOHMH inspection.

The building has maintained good bedbug management practices, with official reports from 2019 through 2023 indicating zero infested dwelling units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units reported during the respective filing periods. However, there is currently an open A-class housing maintenance code violation as of April 2024 regarding the failure to file the annual bedbug report. While the building's inspection history shows passing results for rodent inspections in 2023 and 2017, the pattern of violations related to low-pressure inspections and the heating emergency in 2022 suggests some ongoing maintenance oversight issues that should be monitored.