269 Powers Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

The three-story, three-unit tenement building at 269 Powers Street in East Williamsburg, owned by Giorgio Mayer, has experienced several concerning maintenance issues over recent years. Most notably, there have been multiple incidents of heat and hot water problems, with emergency complaints filed in 2021 and 2022 regarding both apartment-specific and building-wide outages, though some issues were apparently resolved.

As of 2024, the building has faced ongoing rodent problems, with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene documenting violations in March 2024, and three successive inspections between March and April 2024 showing rat activity. The property has also had documentation issues, receiving class A violations in 2022 and 2023 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports as required by HPD regulations, though no actual bedbug infestations have been recorded in any of the five consecutive reporting periods from 2019 through 2024. Recent property compliance checks have shown persistent rodent activity, with inspections in January 2025, April 2024, and March 2024 all indicating this problem, though an initial inspection in January 2023 had passed.

The building's management has demonstrated some attention to pest control, as evidenced by multiple bedbug report filings showing zero infested units in each reporting period. While some heat and hot water issues have been resolved through HPD involvement, the inability of inspectors to gain access to units during certain inspections raises questions about the full understanding of these problems' extent. The most pressing current concern appears to be the unresolved rodent situation, which has persisted despite multiple inspections and the 2024 DOHMH violation notice.