18 Clara Street, Brooklyn, NY 11218

18 Clara Street is a two-story, four-unit New Law tenement building constructed in 1931, currently owned by Fu E Luo and located in the Kensington neighborhood. The building has consistently demonstrated compliance with bedbug reporting requirements over the past five years, with all annual reports (2021-2025) showing zero infested, eradicated, or re-infested dwelling units.

While the property has received five Housing Maintenance Code violations between 2021 and 2024 related to the failure to file annual bedbug reports (all of which have been closed), these appear to be technical violations rather than indicative of an active infestation problem, as evidenced by the subsequent proper filings. More recently, from 2024 to 2025, there have been several complaints regarding illegal hotel rooms in the building, with three separate incidents reported in February, April, and May 2024, with the most recent complaint entering in May 2025.

Of these complaints, two resulted in denied access during inspection attempts, and one (from April 2024) was closed with no violation warranted at the time of inspection. The building's most recent bedbug report filing in July 2025 covers the period from November 2023 to October 2024 and continues the trend of showing no reported infestations. The consistent pattern of bedbug report filings and the absence of actual infestations suggests proper management of this particular issue, though the ongoing concerns about illegal hotel rooms indicate potential regulatory compliance challenges in other areas of building operations.