378 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

378 Degraw Street is a three-unit, three-story old law tenement building constructed in 1899, located in Carroll Gardens and currently owned by Robert Matthews. The property has been consistently in violation of the Housing Maintenance Code's bedbug reporting requirements over the past four years, with open violations recorded in 2024, 2023, and 2022, all relating to the failure to file the mandatory annual bedbug reports with HPD.

While there was one closed violation from 2021 regarding the same issue, the persistence of these violations suggests ongoing non-compliance with this particular regulatory requirement. Interestingly, the building's official bedbug reporting history shows no recorded infestations during the mandatory reporting periods.

The most recent filing from July 2021 covered the 2019-2020 period and reported zero infested units, eradicated units, and re-infested units, while the earlier filing from June 2019 for the 2017-2018 period showed the same results of zero infestation. These clean reports indicate that while the building has consistently failed to meet the bedbug reporting requirements, there has been no actual infestation problem in recent years. However, the pattern of violations might suggest either oversight or inadequate record-keeping practices, rather than an active pest control issue, given the absence of reported infestations during the required reporting periods.