286 Schaefer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

The three-unit, three-story New Law Tenement building at 286 Schaefer Street in Bushwick, owned by Joseph Ocasio and constructed in 1920, has maintained a generally stable housing history over the past several years. The building underwent a routine Housing Maintenance Code inspection in March 2022, which revealed a violation related to the annual bedbug reporting requirement.

However, this violation appears to have been resolved, as subsequent bedbug reports from 2020 through 2023 consistently documented zero infested dwelling units, zero eradicated units, and zero re-infested units, with the most recent report filing in December 2023 covering the period from November 2022 to October 2023. The property has experienced some challenges with rodent activity, most notably in April 2024 and September 2022, when initial inspections detected rat activity.

These issues seem to have been addressed, as subsequent inspections in June 2024 and most recently in April 2025 passed without any rodent-related findings. The building's overall inspection record shows regular compliance with housing maintenance requirements, with a notable pattern of passing inspections since 2018, particularly in rodent inspections, with the exception of the two identified instances of rat activity. The property has maintained current bedbug reporting compliance since the previous violation, with no recorded infestations in recent years.