197 2nd Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10003

197 2nd Avenue is a four-story, four-unit Old Law Tenement building in the East Village, built in 1900 and currently owned by Suzanne Chan. The building has shown consistent compliance with rodent control measures, passing nine consecutive inspections from 2020 through 2025, most recently in April 2025. Recent health department involvement includes a closed complaint in June 2024 regarding odors from a food establishment.

The building's bedbug reporting history shows no infestations during the past two filing periods (2022-2023 and 2021-2022), with all units reported as free of infestation. The property has experienced several significant maintenance issues over the years, particularly in 2018 when multiple violations were documented, including problems with floor repairs, carbon monoxide detector requirements, and various safety notices that needed to be posted in common areas. These violations were all closed by late 2018, with certification that the issues had been addressed.

A refrigerator-related complaint from September 2018 was investigated but no violations were found. More recently, in March 2023, the building received a violation related to the failure to file an annual bedbug report, though this appears to have been resolved as subsequent filings show no infestations. A 2022 complaint regarding unauthorized work in a multiple dwelling was investigated but no violations were found at the time of inspection. The most recent service request involving the building was in December 2023, though this was related to a food establishment rather than the residential building itself.