This Is The Worst Building In NYC, Public Advocate Says

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — A building in Bed-Stuy with nearly 1,000 violations is not only the worst building in Brooklyn, but in all of New York City, according to a new ranking by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

The 1593 Fulton St. apartment complex topped a list of the 10 "worst buildings" in Brooklyn, racking up an average of 819 Housing Preservation and Development and 16 Department of Buildings violations in 2019, the report shows. Williams' report is created by ranking the the buildings in each borough that have the most open violations at the time of the study.

The 819 average also landed the 248-unit Fulton Street building, managed by Risley Dent Towers, above all other "worst" buildings in the five boroughs.

Its average had at least 100 more violations than all top "worst buildings" in the four other boroughs, coming in with almost double the violations of the worst buildings in The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and the rest of the Brooklyn list, the study shows. Manhattan's worst building on West 57th Street, with 647 average violations, came the closest to 1593 Fulton St.'s 819.

And it seems the problems haven't slowed.

The building had 980 open violations with HPD as of this week, records show.

Nearly 30 of the open violations at the building — which include mice and roach infestations, unusable door locks, broken floors and leaky faucets — were issued within the last two weeks, records show.

Risley Dent Towers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On the Brooklyn list, the Fulton Street building was followed by a Sullivan Place complex with 441 average violations, a Vernon Avenue building with 429 and buildings on Lincoln Avenue, Lenox Road, Miller Avenue, East 29th Street, Winthrop Street, Eastern Parkway Extension and Belmont Avenue.

Williams' list, released annually by the public advocate, also includes the 10 worst landlords, a map of the worst buildings, along with its top 10 watchlist buildings for the five boroughs.

The city's own public housing agency topped the list of the worst landlords for the second year in a row. See a full list of the city's worst landlords and the buildings they own here.