150 East 56th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203

The two-story, four-unit New Law Tenement at 150 East 56th Street in East Flatbush, owned by Peter Lewison and dating back to 1930, has experienced several significant maintenance issues over the past few years. Most notably, in March 2025, there was a building-wide heat and hot water outage that required HPD intervention, though the service was restored before inspection.

This follows a similar incident in 2021 involving a plumbing issue with an individual toilet that, while inspected by HPD, did not result in any violations. The building has a documented history of annual bedbug reporting violations between 2021 and 2024, with the same violation being cited repeatedly for four consecutive years between 2021-2024 for failure to file the required annual bedbug report as per Housing Maintenance Code § HMC.

However, the most recent bedbug report submitted in October 2024 covering the period from November 2022 to October 2023 shows no reports of infestation, eradication, or re-infestation, suggesting the building may have resolved this issue, though the previous pattern of violations indicates it was an ongoing concern. It is worth noting that this building has had no other documented Housing Maintenance Code violations during this period, and the property appears to have addressed the bedbug reporting compliance issue in its most recent filing, though the lack of certified dates on the violations suggests they were not formally closed through inspection or correction notice.