129 Cornelia Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221

129 Cornelia Street is a two-story, three-unit residential building in Bushwick, constructed in 1910 and currently owned by Alice Branch. The building has experienced several recurring maintenance issues over the years, most notably in early 2019, when multiple emergency complaints were filed regarding cooking gas problems, heat, and hot water issues affecting the entire building. While some of these complaints were investigated by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), violations were not consistently issued, and inspections were either inconclusive due to lack of access or resulted in no violations being found.

More recently, the building has had persistent bedbug reporting violations from 2021 through 2024, with four consecutive open violations related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports as required by HPD regulations. There was one C-class violation in February 2019 regarding inadequate gas supply to a basement apartment stove, and a B-class violation concerning defective plaster and paint in a bathroom, though these were ultimately addressed. The building's recent maintenance history shows some improvement in basic habitability concerns, with rodent inspections conducted in 2025 and 2024 resulting in passed evaluations, following a previous rat activity report in 2022.

Historical inspection records from 2018, 2019, and 2020 show consistent compliance with rodent control measures, with the building generally passing inspections. The most pressing current concern is the open bedbug reporting violations, which have persisted over multiple years and regulatory cycles. While various repairs and inspections have been conducted throughout the building's history, there appears to be a pattern of incomplete resolution of certain systemic issues, particularly relating to compliance reporting requirements and periodic infrastructure problems.