88 East 51st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203

88 East 51st Street is a 2-story, 4-unit residential building located in East Flatbush, built in 1930 and classified as a New Law Tenement. The property, owned by Theresa Powelll, has experienced consistent heating and water supply issues throughout 2023, with nine complaints recorded between March and November 2023 regarding heat and hot water problems, eight of which resulted in HPD being unable to gain access to assess the situation.

Additionally, two plumbing complaints regarding water supply in July 2023 also faced similar access issues. The building has several ongoing maintenance concerns as of 2023-2024, including three open violations from September 2023 regarding defective self-closing doors (to the cellar, boiler room, and vestibule) and two violations requiring the posting of gas leak procedures and housing information notices from August 2023.

While the building has maintained a clean record in terms of pest infestations, with no bedbug or rodent issues reported in recent years (bedbug reporting shows no infested units from 2019-2024, and rodent inspections in 2011 passed), the chronic heating and water supply problems throughout 2023 represent a significant pattern of service disruptions. The property has also experienced occasional administrative violations, including the need to file annual bedbug reports, most recently recorded in April 2024, though previous inspections from 2022 and 2023 showed zero infestation counts. The combination of recurrent heating/water issues and multiple open building code violations suggests persistent maintenance challenges, though these have been somewhat offset by the lack of recent pest problems.