345 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206

345 Lorimer Street is a 3-story, 6-unit New Law tenement building constructed in 1920, currently owned by Michael Rochford. The building's most pressing recent issues have centered around heating and hot water problems, with multiple emergency complaints filed in January 2023 regarding inadequate hot water throughout the entire building.

These incidents led to inspections by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), resulting in violations for Apartments 1A and 2A specifically, though these violations were certified as corrected by the end of January 2023. The building has maintained a consistent record of filing annual bedbug reports, with no infestations reported in any of the filing periods from 2019 through 2024, including the most recent report filed in July 2025 covering the period from November 2023 to October 2024.

The property's maintenance history shows some recurring issues, particularly with heating systems - this pattern was evident not only in 2023 but also in a heating complaint from January 2022 involving an individual apartment. While there was a more general compliance violation noted in April 2021 regarding the failure to file an annual bedbug report, this appears to have been an isolated incident that has since been rectified, as evidenced by subsequent filings. The building's most recent documented complaints and violations focus primarily on hot water issues, which appear to have been addressed based on the certifications provided, though the pattern of multiple complaints within a short timeframe suggests this may have been a persistent problem that required multiple tenant reports to initiate proper resolution.