262 Cornelia Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221

The three-story, six-unit tenement building at 262 Cornelia Street in Bushwick, built in 1907 and owned by Lazer Nussenzweig, has experienced several significant maintenance issues over recent years. Most notably, there has been a consistent pattern of bedbug reporting violations from 2021 to 2024, with all violations occurring due to failure to file the required annual bedbug report, though recent filings in 2024 and 2025 show no reported infestations during the specified periods.

The building faced multiple serious violations in 2019 that remain classified as open, including roof leaks affecting the third-story public hall ceiling, broken fire-retardant materials in the same area, and inadequate light-colored paint on the ceiling. More recently, a 2023 Department of Buildings violation was issued for failure to file the 2018 external low-pressure inspection, which remains active.

The building's rodent control history shows a concerning pattern, with several inspections between 2017 and 2025 indicating rat activity, including recent rat activity documented in April 2025 and February 2022, though there were periods of compliance where inspections passed in March 2024 and March 2023. Bait was applied repeatedly in April 2017 as part of the pest control measures. While the building maintains a bedbug-free status in its most recent reports and has generally addressed its bedbug reporting violations, the persistent rodent issues and the maintenance violations from 2019 suggest ongoing challenges with building upkeep and pest control.