1255 Gates Avenue
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through June 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- 2 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- Built in 2008 (city records)
About this building
City records list 2008 as the year built — newer than 83% of the 1,204 buildings we cover in ZIP 11221, and the newest of the 6 buildings we cover on this block. At 6 floors, the tallest on this block. 83 apartments — the most of any building we cover on this block, and more than 97% of the 1,207 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 11221 have fewer. The building’s floor space is 3.9 times the size of its lot: 66,300 sq ft of building on a 17,000 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
1255 Gates Avenue
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- City records show 2 open HPD violations, 2 immediately hazardous (Class C) under 1245 Gates Avenue — the address HPD files this building’s records under, not the address on this page. Ask which are still unresolved in the unit and the landlord’s timeline to clear them.
- The oldest open violation on record dates to 2024 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- We found no DHCR rent-stabilization unit count for this building. That is not the same as the building being market-rate — a registration can be on file with no unit figure, or not have been filed at all. Ask the landlord directly whether the unit is rent-stabilized, and request your own rent history from DHCR.
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Abate the infestation consisting of roaches in the entire apartment.
- Confirm in person that the immediately-hazardous (Class C) conditions — typically heat, hot water, leaks, mold or pests — are genuinely fixed, not just marked closed.
1255 Gates Avenue sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11221. The closest subway is Gates Av (J,Z) (6-minute walk), served by the J, M, and Z lines.
Building Condition
Issued December 2024. HPD marks a violation open until it is certified as corrected, so an old date can mean an unresolved condition or a repair that was never certified.
- 2024-12-15
- 2024-12-15
- 2024-12-15
- 2024-12-15
- Class C · 2 open · penalty 30 · (15/ea)
- 2025-09-04 · Apt 3B · NON EMERGENCY · APPLIANCE
- 2025-09-04 · Apt 3B · EMERGENCY · UNSANITARY CONDITION
- 2024-06-23 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2023)"
- 2023-04-22 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 IN 2022"
- 2022-12-01 "FAILURE TO DISPLAY ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCORE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRADE AS PER ADCODE SEC. 28-309.12.3"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 2008, after the 1978 federal ban on lead paint in residential use. Owners must still address any lead hazard that is later identified.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 58
- PETIT LARCENY: 49
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 44
- FELONY ASSAULT: 38
- GRAND LARCENY: 24
- Noise - Residential: 120
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 90
- Blocked Driveway: 67
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 52
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 36
- 388 CENTRAL AVENUE
- 1192 GATES AVE
- 440 EVERGREEN AVE
- P.S. 075 Mayda Cortiella
- P.S. 299 Thomas Warren Field
- P.S. 377 Alejandrina B. De Gautier
- J.H.S. 291 Roland Hayes
- J.H.S. 383 Philippa Schuyler
- Achievement First Bushwick Charter School
- Achievement First Bushwick Charter School
- Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology
- All City Leadership Secondary School
- Gates Av
- Knickerbocker Av
- Halsey St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick
- Math, Engineering And Science Academy Charter High School
- P.s. 299 Thomas Warren Field
- Bushwick Community High School
- Eng 277, Lad 112 - Parking
- Goodwin Gardens
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area:
- Optimum Cable Up to 940 Mbps down · 35 Mbps up
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Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection (NY, rev. May 2026). Wired broadband only — cable + fiber. DSL, satellite, and fixed-wireless not included. Block-level data; actual availability may vary by building.
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