280 Livonia Avenue
12 months to Jul 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
- Built in 1975 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 264 of 264 units
About this building
City records list 1975 as the year built — newer than 85% of the 474 buildings we cover in ZIP 11212. The building’s floor space is 2.1 times the size of its lot: 298,933 sq ft of building on a 144,407 sq ft lot. 264 apartments — more than 96% of the 462 residential buildings we cover in ZIP 11212 have.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
280 Livonia Avenue
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- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 264 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.
280 Livonia Avenue sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11212. The closest subway is Rockaway Av (3) (2-minute walk), served by the 3 and L lines.
Building Condition
- 2021-06-20 "FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 IN 2020"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 1975. For buildings built between 1960 and 1978, Local Law 1 applies where the owner knows lead-based paint is present — there is no automatic pre-1960 presumption. Lead paint in residential use was federally banned in 1978.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 142
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 127
- PETIT LARCENY: 96
- MISCELLANEOUS PENAL LAW: 79
- FELONY ASSAULT: 55
- Non-Emergency Police Matter: 725
- Noise - Residential: 243
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 77
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 72
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 39
- 254 LIVONIA AVE
- 702 ROCKAWAY AVE
- 702 ROCKAWAY AVENUE
- P.S. 041 Francis White
- P.S. 184 Newport
- The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, a
- P.S. 041 Francis White
- P.S. 184 Newport
- The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, a
- Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School
- HS Of Redirection
- Rockaway Av
- Junius St
- Livonia Av
- Grade A
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- Grade A
- Mott Hall Bridges Academy
- Stone Avenue Library
- P.s. 041 Francis White
- United Community Centers Youth Farm
- Hoparkinson R&l Block Association Garden
- Frederick Douglass Academy Vii High School
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Optimum Cable Fiber Up to 8,000 Mbps down · 8,000 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 980 Mbps down · 880 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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