1224 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225

The three-story, two-family house at 1224 Nostrand Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, owned by John Turis and built in 1925, experienced a significant cluster of maintenance issues in February 2019 that required intervention from multiple city agencies.

Specifically, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issued violations related to various flooring/stairs conditions, cabinet issues, door problems (including a dumbwaiter door), and ceiling plaster/paint concerns, with multiple complaints categorized as either emergency or immediate emergency situations. All of these complaints were resolved by February 28, 2019, though they collectively indicated an urgent need for building maintenance attention at that time.

In the months following these repairs, there were two additional complaints: one regarding building shaking/vibrating issues in February 2019, and another related to COVID-19 executive orders in April 2020, though inspections for both complaints found no violations at the time. The building's maintenance record over the past five years suggests that while there was a significant cluster of issues in early 2019 requiring emergency attention, there have been no documented housing maintenance code violations or building department complaints in the more recent years leading up to July 2025, indicating that the building has experienced no major documented maintenance issues since the comprehensive February 2019 repairs.