900 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230

900 East 18th Street is a 22-unit, 4-story residential building located in Midwood, constructed in 1927 and currently owned by Pankaj Prasad. The building has experienced significant and frequent heating and hot water system issues throughout 2024 and 2025, with multiple emergency complaints recorded through 311 services, particularly from February to May 2025.

These complaints, many of which were marked as emergencies, indicate ongoing problems with heat and hot water availability affecting both individual apartments and the entire building. The property has also faced rodent-related challenges, with repeated inspections in 2025 confirming rat activity (most recently in June 2025), following a Department of Health & Mental Hygiene violation for rat sightings in May 2025. The building's mechanical systems have been the subject of multiple violations and compliance issues, including regularly occurring problems with the boiler room access and heating system.

During 2024, specific violations were documented regarding inadequate heating and hot water supply in apartments A4 and D5, along with concerns about scalding hot water in apartment A4. In 2023-2024, there was a notable violation for failure to file the 2022 external low-pressure inspection, and in 2019-2020, there was an ECB violation related to an improperly secured material hoist on the roof (with a $5,000 penalty). The building's history shows consistent maintenance and compliance issues, particularly focusing on heating systems, water supply, and pest control, though it has maintained a clean record regarding bedbug infestations, with zero reported cases in all annual filings from 2019 to present.