31 Varick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

31 Varick Avenue is a 3-story, 6-unit residential tenement building built in 1931 and currently owned by Vivany Reyes. The building has experienced several notable events over recent years, with the most recent being a rat sighting in October 2024, though this was later determined to be related to an earlier complaint and the building passed subsequent rodent inspections in 2024, 2022, and 2021. The property has maintained a clean bedbug record for the past five reporting periods from 2019 to 2025, with no reported infestations or related issues.

Significant maintenance issues were documented in 2019 regarding Apartment 2L, including problems with window guards, gas supply to the range, and self-closing doors, all of which were resolved. The building experienced construction-related concerns in January 2019, with complaints about vibrations and unauthorized work in the cellar, resulting in an ECB violation with a $1,250 penalty that was subsequently resolved. More recent matters of note include two active DOB violations issued in June 2023 for failure to file 2018 and 2019 external low pressure inspections.

The building has shown regular compliance with NYCHA requirements, having filed annual bedbug reports consistently from 2020 to 2025 showing zero infested units. While historical violations indicate some maintenance issues, particularly in 2019 when three violations were documented during a single inspection of Apartment 2L, these were successfully resolved. The property has exhibited good general upkeep in recent years, passing multiple rodent inspections and maintaining a clean bedbug record, though the recent DOB violations for the low pressure inspection remains an open issue as of October 2023.