154 Newton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

154 Newton Street in Greenpoint is a three-story, four-unit residential building built in 1930 and classified as an Old Law Tenement, currently owned by John Hammond. The property has experienced several notable maintenance issues in recent years, with the most pressing being a rodent problem.

In April 2025, a rat sighting was reported and found to have resulted in violations requiring follow-up inspections, with initial inspections in May 2025 showing rat activity and a subsequent compliance inspection in June 2025 passing without issues. The building has a history of heat and hot water complaints, with two emergency-related incidents in February 2019, though inspectors were unable to gain access to the apartments to verify the conditions. The building has undergone regular bedbug reporting compliance checks from 2019 through 2024, with all reports indicating zero infested dwelling units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units, suggesting effective management of this particular pest issue.

While the property has had violations related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports in 2021 and 2022, these were subsequently addressed. A rat activity inspection in 2025 and follow-up compliance inspectionshowed improvement in rodent management, though the initial rodent activity was significant enough to warrant health department involvement. The building's current status as of July 2025 shows ongoing attention to pest management, with the most recent inspections indicating improved conditions since the initial rodent complaints earlier in 2025.