408 South 2nd 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
- 3 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (5 vs ~2)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1915) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
About this building
The building’s floor space is 4.8 times the size of its lot: 24,375 sq ft of building on a 5,122 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 1, 2026.
408 South 2nd Street
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- City records show 3 open HPD violations, 3 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 2022 — 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: Correct failure to notify occupants and/or to investigate lead-based paint hazards.
- 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.
408 South 2 Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11211. The closest subway is Hewes St (M,J) (4-minute walk), served by the G, J, L, M, and Z lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: September 2022 · Most recent: January 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.
- 2025-11-24 "§ 27-2056.4 ADM CODE- CORRECT FAILURE TO NOTIFY OCCUPANTS AND/OR TO INVESTIGATE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS."
- 2025-11-24
- 2022-09-22
- 2022-09-22
- Class C · 3 open · penalty 45 · (15/ea)
- 2025-10-14 · Apt 5C · NON EMERGENCY · FLOORING/STAIRS
- 2025-08-27 · Apt 4C · EMERGENCY · DOOR/WINDOW
- 2025-08-27 · Apt 4C · NON EMERGENCY · ELECTRIC
- 2026-08-19
- 2022-03-30 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
- 2021-03-25
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 1915. 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.
Also on record: 2 procedural §27-2056 violations (failure to file required lead paperwork, most recent 2026) — a records failure, not evidence of a lead hazard.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- PETIT LARCENY: 154
- SEX CRIMES: 79
- HARRASSMENT 2: 76
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 47
- GRAND LARCENY: 45
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 160
- Noise - Residential: 122
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 99
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk: 72
- Blocked Driveway: 66
- 239 UNION AVE
- 489 GRAND ST
- 214 BORINQUEN PL
- P.S. 319
- P.S. 019 Roberto Clemente
- Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School
- Lyons Community School
- Beginning with Children Charter School II
- Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
- Lyons Community School
- Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
- El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice
- Hewes St
- Broadway
- Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Keap Fourth Community Garden
- El Puente Academy For Peace And Justice
- Strawberry Playground
- Hooper Grove
- Blue Playground
- Rodney Park North
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Verizon Fiber Up to 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
- Spectrum Cable 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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