229 Suydam Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

The 3-story, 6-unit Old Law Tenement building at 229 Suydam Street in Bushwick, owned by Julio Franco, has experienced several significant issues over the past few years, with particular concerns around rodent activity. Most recently, in June 2025, the building showed evidence of rat activity during an initial inspection, though it passed a subsequent compliance check in July 2025.

The property's rodent situation has shown both improvement and persistence over time, with December 2024 inspections revealing rat activity, while earlier inspections in 2024 and 2023 had mixed results, alternating between findings of rat activity and compliance passes. Between 2019 and 2024, the building had various service requests, including a power outage in July 2022 that required HPD intervention but resulted in no violations, and a DOHMH complaint about a potentially illegal pet rooster in March 2019 that remains unresolved. The building has faced some regulatory challenges, including an active Department of Buildings violation from November 2019 regarding the failure to file the 2017 boiler inspection report.

However, more recent records suggest improvements in certain areas: the building has consistently reported zero bedbug infestations in annual filings from 2019 through 2024, and the most recent DOHMH inspection in April 2024 found no violations. The property's recent rodent activity pattern indicates ongoing challenges with pest control, though the ability to achieve compliance passes suggests some responsiveness to inspections. As of the current date, the building's most pressing concern appears to be the recurring rodent issues, despite passing the most recent inspection.