A small Second Avenue walk-up held by the same ownership group for more than twenty years.
Owned by the same local company since January 2005, when they purchased it for $1.685M. It's a 16-unit walk-up with ground-floor retail on Second Avenue that carries no open housing-code violations, but has seen some recent friction downstairs and in the walls. Three things to know:
Unpermitted work and unlicensed plumbing drew city inspectors last winter. On December 17, 2025, city inspectors received multiple complaints about unlicensed plumbing and work without a permit in an occupied apartment. While those issues are now resolved and closed, they point to uncoordinated interior renovations.
Issues in the ground-floor retail space can bleed upstairs. A complaint from July 5, 2026 flags a food-prep issue in the ground-floor commercial space, which follows a retail-focused consumer complaint and a rat sighting on the property in December 2025. In a 16-unit building, kitchen friction downstairs often translates to pests or odors upstairs.
The surrounding blocks are busy, with pounding noise topping the local complaints. There were 214 residential noise complaints within three blocks of the building over the last 12 months, with banging and pounding accounting for 145 of those calls. Street-level noise adds another 51 calls to the mix, reflecting active Second Avenue life.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
2037 2 Avenue is a 16-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1016540027). This building is associated with 2 Leaders Realty LLC. Brix tracks 0 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1920, this walk-up apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 4 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about paint/plaster.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed August 11, 2023.
The building last changed hands on November 18, 2016 for $1,700,000, according to recorded deeds.
Brix rating: Clean (100/100). View the full report on Brix.
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