142 East 55th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203

The 6-unit, 3-story tenement building at 142 East 55th Street in East Flatbush, owned by Reginald Hart, has several significant open violations that warrant attention. Most notably, there is an ongoing issue with the building's bedbug reporting compliance, with violations dating back to 2022 and continuing as recently as April 2024, indicating a pattern of non-compliance with required annual bedbug reporting under Housing Maintenance Code § HMC.

The building has also accumulated multiple Department of Buildings violations, all issued in 2023-2024, related to failure to file external low-pressure inspections for consecutive years between 2018 and 2023. Additionally, there is an open violation from 2019 regarding failure to file the annual boiler inspection report for 2017.

Despite these violations, the building's official bedbug reporting for the period between November 2019 and October 2020 indicated no infested units, no eradicated units, and no re-infested units, suggesting that when reporting was conducted, there were no active infestations to report. However, the persistent violations for failing to submit required bedbug reports over multiple years imply potential ongoing concerns with record-keeping or inspection compliance. The most recent active violations related to both bedbug reporting and low-pressure inspections represent the building's current outstanding compliance issues as of July 2025.