139 Emerson Place
Top insights
- 1 open hazardous (Class C) violation
- Built in 1946 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 50 of 50 units
About this building
City records list 1946 as the year built — newer than 83% of the 49 buildings we cover in ZIP 11205. The building’s floor space is 2.9 times the size of its lot: 45,670 sq ft of building on a 15,942 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 13, 2026.
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
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139 Emerson Place
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- City records show 6 open HPD violations, 1 immediately hazardous (Class C) at this building. Ask which are still unresolved in the unit and the landlord’s timeline to clear them.
- The oldest open violation on record dates to 2012 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 50 rent-stabilized units here. Ask whether this specific unit is one of them, and ask the landlord for its legal regulated rent and lease history.
- Confirm the condition behind the most recent open violation was actually repaired, not just marked closed: Provide ready access to buildings heating system locked door at basement.
- 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.
139 Emerson Place sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11205. The closest subway is Classon Av (G) (6-minute walk), served by the G line.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: November 2012 · Most recent: January 2022. 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.
- 2022-01-16 "§ 27-2033 ADM CODE PROVIDE READY ACCESS TO BUILDINGS HEATING SYSTEM LOCKED DOOR AT BASEMENT"
- 2013-02-05 "§ 27-2045 ADM CODE REPAIR OR REPLACE THE SMOKE DETECTOR DEFECTIVE LOCATED AT APT 508, 5th STORY, 3rd APARTMENT FROM SOUT…"
- 2013-02-05 "§ 27-2046.1, 2046.2 HMC: PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE W…"
- 2013-02-05 "§ 27-2005 ADM CODE REFIT ALL WINDOWS IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 508, 5th STORY, 3rd APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT…"
- 2012-11-10 "§ 27-2046.1, 2046.2 HMC: PROVIDE AN APPROVED AND OPERATIONAL CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE, INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE W…"
- Class C · 1 open · penalty 15 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 4 open · penalty 20 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 1 open · penalty 1 · (1/ea)
- 2014-03-31 "VIOLATION ISSUED TO ELEVATOR-FAILURE TO FILE CATEGORY 1 2012 INSPECTION/TEST"
- 2012-08-15
- 2011-10-04
1 lead-paint hazard cited and later remediated (most recent 2018); no open hazards on record. Remediation addresses the cited conditions, not necessarily every painted surface.
Under NYC Local Law 1 (Admin Code §27-2056.5), lead paint is presumed present in common areas and in apartments where a child under 6 resides, in multiple dwellings built before 1960 (this building: built 1946). The presumption stands unless the owner obtained a lead-free or lead-safe exemption from HPD. Those exemption records aren’t published as open data, so we can’t confirm one either way.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 48
- PETIT LARCENY: 46
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 19
- GRAND LARCENY: 16
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 15
- Illegal Parking: 86
- Noise: 38
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 36
- Maintenance or Facility: 26
- Noise - Residential: 24
- 551 MYRTLE AVENUE
- 569 MYRTLE AVE
- 541 MYRTLE AVE
- P.S. 270 Johann DeKalb
- Community Partnership Charter School
- P.S./I.S. 157 The Benjamin Franklin Health & Scien
- J.H.S. 117 Francis Scott Key
- Beginning With Children Charter School
- M.S. 596 Peace Academy
- Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM)
- Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community
- Benjamin Banneker Academy
- Classon Av
- Clinton-Washington Avs
- Bedford-Nostrand Avs
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Hychel Hatorah
- Pratt Institute
- Bnos Spinka Boys School
- Pratt Institute
- Classon Playground
- So Percussion
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Spectrum Cable Fiber Up to 1,000 Mbps down · 1,000 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 980 Mbps down · 880 Mbps up
- 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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