198 South 1st Street
Class B
Class C
12 months to Aug 2026
rent-stabilized with
DHCR (most recent year)
units (PLUTO)
12 months through March 2026
rent
min walk
(311 complaints)
errands grade
nearby
Top insights
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1906) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 15 of 15 units
About this building
City records list 1906 as the year built — older than 93% of the 1,033 buildings we cover in ZIP 11211. The building’s floor space is 3.4 times the size of its lot: 12,630 sq ft of building on a 3,760 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 31, 2026.
198 South 1st Street
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- City records show 1 open HPD violation 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 2017 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 15 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: Repair or replace the smoke detector defective.
198 South 1 Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11211. The closest subway is Marcy Av (M,J,Z) (7-minute walk), served by the G, J, L, M, and Z lines.
Building Condition
Issued November 2017. 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.
- 2017-11-03
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- 2025-09-17 · Apt E3 · NON EMERGENCY · APPLIANCE
- 2007-01-19
- 2006-01-06
- 2005-10-01
10 lead-paint hazards cited and later remediated (most recent 2022); 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 1906). 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.
Also on record: 1 procedural §27-2056 violation (failure to file required lead paperwork, most recent 2022) — a records failure, not evidence of a lead hazard.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- PETIT LARCENY: 69
- GRAND LARCENY: 57
- HARRASSMENT 2: 50
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 41
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 27
- Noise - Residential: 172
- Noise - Commercial: 139
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 136
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 135
- Graffiti: 78
- 276 GRAND ST
- 172 S 3RD ST
- 244 ROEBLING STREET
- Success Academy Charter School - Williamsburg
- P.S. 017 Henry D. Woodworth
- P.S. 084 Jose De Diego
- Success Academy Charter School - Williamsburg
- J.H.S. 050 John D. Wells
- Conselyea Preparatory School
- Harry Van Arsdale High School
- Brooklyn Preparatory High School
- Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Desi
- Marcy Av
- Bedford Av
- Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Keap Fourth Community Garden
- Williamsburg Art And Historical Center
- Grand Street Community Garden
- Strawberry Playground
- Southside United Housing Development Fund Corp
- Friends Of City Reliquary Incorporated
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
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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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