192 Schaefer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207

The four-story, 8-unit tenement building at 192 Schaefer Street in Bushwick, owned by Sol Sinay, has experienced several maintenance issues over recent years, with the most significant concerns centering around pest infestations and safety violations. In 2022, there were multiple 311 complaints regarding pest problems and window issues, leading to violations being issued. The building has documented violations related to a roach infestation in apartment 1R (March 2022), as well as fire safety concerns including defective smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and issues with a self-closing door in the same apartment.

These violations were still marked open in 2024, though the building has shown recent good practices in bedbug reporting, with no infested units reported in the past three filing periods. Earlier issues included a serious water leak in 2020 and inadequate heat/hot water in 2019, both of which resulted in violations. More recent inspections and compliance checks have shown improvements, with the building passing rodent inspections in 2025 and 2024, though there was one instance of rat activity noted in August 2022.

The building was also the subject of a Department of Buildings environmental violation in 2022 concerning unauthorized occupancy of a cellar space as a duplex apartment, which carried a $625 penalty. While the property has maintained regular bedbug reporting compliance since 2022 with no reported infestations, there remain some outstanding violations from 2022 related to building safety systems. The most recent rodent inspection in April 2025 passed without issue, indicating improved pest management.