53 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn

A Bed-Stuy three-family townhouse with open administrative filings and drainage trouble on file.

A 2005 three-family house in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The building carries eight open violations for missed paperwork alongside recent drainage trouble, while the surrounding area sees heavy sanitation activity and recurring air-quality reports. Three things to know:

Annual registration filings have slipped for several consecutive years. The property carries eight open code violations, half for unfiled annual bedbug reports and half for failing to file a valid property registration statement. These are paper compliance issues rather than physical defects, but they show a multi-year pattern of missed annual filings.

A recent plumbing call points to stack or drainage trouble. A plumbing call for improper drainage and failure to retain water was logged in July 2026 and remains open. In a small three-unit setup, main-line stack issues can quickly spill across apartments.

Surrounding blocks report recurring indoor air quality and mold complaints. Within three blocks of the house, neighbors logged 11 indoor air quality calls over the last year alongside 183 unsanitary condition reports, primarily for mold and pests. Air-quality and odor calls often trace back to shared shafts or street-level exhaust drifting into lower floors.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Within three blocks, neighbors logged 99 residential noise calls over the last year, mostly for loud music and parties.
• Surrounding blocks logged 75 illegal parking reports in the last 12 months, largely double-parking and blocked driveways.

53 Van Buren Street is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3017910061). This building is associated with Article 13 LLC. Brix tracks 8 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 2005, this walk-up apartment building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• (A) § HMC:FILE ANNUAL BEDBUG REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HPD RULE AS DESCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THIS NOTICE OF VIOLATION OR AS DESCRIBED ON HPDS WEBSITE, WWW
• §27-2107 ADM CODE OWNER FAILED TO FILE A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY ADM CODE §27-2097 AND IS THEREFORE SUBJECT TO CIVIL PEN

The building last changed hands on June 30, 2020, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 42/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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