1401 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

1401 Hancock Street is a converted 4-story, 6-unit residential building in Bushwick, built in 1910 and currently owned by Prashanth Rayapudi. The building has experienced some maintenance issues in recent years, with the most recent complaints being a water leak (closed August 2024) and a mailbox problem (closed August 2024), both classified as non-emergency by the Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) department.

A notable cluster of complaints and violations occurred in 2021, primarily related to construction activities, including several issues with unsafe/illegal demolition work and work contrary to stop work orders. Multiple Building Department violations were issued in May 2021 for failure to certify corrections on immediately hazardous (Class 1) violations, though these were subsequently dismissed by June 2021.

While there were concerns about construction safety compliance, records show that inspectors frequently encountered access issues when attempting to investigate certain complaints, including training compliance and adjacent buildings not being protected. More recent records from 2023-2024 indicate no significant pest issues, with bedbug reports showing zero infested dwelling units in the past two reporting periods. Both the water leak and mailbox complaints, which are more recent than the 2021 issues, resulted in inspections that found no violations warranting further action, suggesting these were isolated incidents rather than ongoing systemic problems.