416 Midwood Street, Brooklyn, NY 11225

The three-unit residential building at 416 Midwood Street in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, owned by Abraham Posner, has had several notable maintenance and compliance issues since its construction in 2007. Most recently, in March 2025, the building experienced water supply issues that prompted both 311 service requests and emergency housing maintenance code complaints.

While the Housing Preservation Department (HPD) attempted to investigate these concerns, the inspection was not completed successfully, requiring tenants to refile if the problems persisted. The building has maintained an active bedbug reporting compliance record from 2020 through 2024, with no reported infestations in any of the five consecutive annual filings, suggesting successful management of this potential issue.

However, there are two significant open violations on record: an April 2024 notice requiring the filing of an annual bedbug report (which should have been a routine compliance item) and a longstanding August 2018 violation (Class B) regarding inadequate exterior lighting at the front entranceway, where minimum required lighting of 100 watts was not maintained. The building underwent an initial rodent inspection in June 2013 and passed, with no further rodent-related issues reported since. The combination of recent water supply concerns and the unresolved lighting violation from 2018, along with the need for re-inspection of the water supply issue in 2025, are the most relevant current building conditions, while the successful management of bedbug reporting requirements over four years demonstrates one aspect of proactive building maintenance.