39 Melrose 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
- More open HPD violations than ~61% of buildings in this ZIP (7 open)
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~3)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1931) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 6 of 6 units
39 Melrose Street
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- City records show 7 open HPD violations 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 2020 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 6 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: Fire egress defective. remove obstructing bars or unlawful gates from window to fire escape….
39 Melrose Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11206. The closest subway is Myrtle Av (M,J,Z) (2-minute walk), served by the J, M, and Z lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: February 2020 · Most recent: May 2026. 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.
- 2026-05-05
- 2025-06-10
- 2024-04-11
- 2023-03-24
- 2022-03-01
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 6 open · penalty 6 · (1/ea)
- 2025-11-14 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2024 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
- 2018-04-06 "VIOLATION ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL BOILER 2016 INSPECTION REPORT"
- 2015-03-03 "VIOLATION ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL BOILER 2013 INSPECTION REPORT"
No HPD lead-paint violations are on record for this building. That means no complaint or inspection was filed — not that the building is lead-free.
Built 1931. 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. 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
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 111
- PETIT LARCENY: 109
- HARRASSMENT 2: 95
- GRAND LARCENY: 77
- DANGEROUS DRUGS: 77
- Noise - Commercial: 324
- Noise - Residential: 240
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 151
- Illegal Parking: 105
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 73
- 595 BUSHWICK AVE
- 943B BROADWAY
- 893 BROADWAY
- P.S. 120 Carlos Tapia
- P.S. 145 Andrew Jackson
- P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens
- I.S. 347 School of Humanities
- I.S. 349 Math, Science & Tech.
- Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn
- Williamsburg Charter High School
- EBC High School for Public Service - Bushwick
- Bushwick Leaders High School for Academic Excellen
- Myrtle Av
- Flushing Av
- Central Av
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Beaver Noll Park
- Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
- El Garden
- Bushwick Playground
- Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School Ii
- Freedom Triangle
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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