309 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221

309 Van Buren Street is a 2-story, 3-unit residential building located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, constructed in 1899 and currently owned by Jiho Song. The property has an extended history of noncompliance with housing maintenance code requirements regarding annual bedbug reporting, with four consecutive violations recorded between 2021 and 2024, all of which remain open as of the current date.

These violations, while administrative in nature, indicate a pattern of neglecting required pest management documentation. Additionally, there is an active environmental control board violation from April 2021 related to failure to properly sign off a construction permit that had expired in 2019, incurring a penalty of $1,250 which remains unpaid. Despite these ongoing administrative issues, the building has consistently passed rodent inspections, with eight consecutive successful inspections recorded between 2020 and 2025, including an inspection in April 2025.

The only documented rodent-related incident was in September 2021, which was promptly investigated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, resulting in no violations being found. A complaint was filed in April 2021 regarding construction work beyond approved plans or permits, which resulted in an Oath violation being served on April 30, 2021, though the specific resolution of this complaint is not detailed in the records. While the building has demonstrated compliance with rodent control requirements, the persistent bedbug reporting violations and the outstanding permit-related penalty represent the most significant outstanding issues in the building's record.