74 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213

74 Utica Avenue in Crown Heights is a three-story, two-family residential building owned by Annie Revells and constructed in 1920. The property has experienced significant safety and structural concerns over the past several years, with the most pressing issue being an active complaint as of April 2025 regarding the building being vacant, open, and unguarded.

In 2020, the building was placed under particularly serious scrutiny when two Environmental Control Board violations were issued, documenting a failure to maintain the building in a code-compliant manner, specifically citing inadequate fire stopping and structural support issues at the cellar level, for which penalties of $6,250 and $3,125 were imposed. These violations were connected to a Construction Enforcement Work Order that resulted in a full vacate order being served in July 2022. The building's history includes three closed Construction Enforcement Work Orders in 2020 and 2022, one of which initiated the vacate order due to serious safety concerns.

While these issues appear to have been addressed through permits obtained in early 2021 (with four separate issued permits), the property has continued to exhibit concerning patterns, including a March 2019 inspection from the M.A.R.C.H. Program that resulted in no enforcement action being taken, though it's worth noting that complaints regarding failure to certify corrections on immediately hazardous violations were dismissed in August 2021. The most recent complaint about the building's vacant status raises ongoing concerns about maintenance and security as of 2025.