431 Remsen Avenue
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
nearby
Top insights
- More open HPD violations than ~75% of buildings in this ZIP (48 open)
- 13 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- Built in 1965 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 11 units registered
About this building
City records list 1965 as the year built — newer than 83% of the 474 buildings we cover in ZIP 11212.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
431 Remsen Avenue
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- City records show 48 open HPD violations, 13 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 2005 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 11 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: Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entire….
- 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.
431 Remsen Avenue sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11212. No subway stations are within an 800-meter walk — expect to rely on buses or rideshare.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: October 2005 · 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.
- 2025-09-28
- 2025-09-28
- 2025-09-03
- 2025-09-03
- 2025-09-03
- 2025-09-03
- 2025-09-03
- 2024-11-26
- 2024-08-28
- 2024-08-28
- Class C · 13 open · penalty 195 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 34 open · penalty 170 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 1 open · penalty 1 · (1/ea)
- 2026-01-01 · Apt 1B · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2026-01-01 · Apt 1C · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2025-10-21 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2022-03-30 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
- 2022-03-30 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
- 2011-08-24 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
2 lead-paint hazards cited and later remediated (most recent 2017); no open hazards on record. Remediation addresses the cited conditions, not necessarily every painted surface.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- HARRASSMENT 2: 101
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 63
- PETIT LARCENY: 42
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 38
- MISCELLANEOUS PENAL LAW: 28
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 50
- Blocked Driveway: 47
- Illegal Parking: 45
- Traffic Signal Condition: 38
- Noise - Residential: 34
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- Kings Collegiate Charter School
- P.S. 219 Kennedy-King
- P.S. 268 Emma Lazarus
- Kings Collegiate Charter School
- Middle School for Art and Philosophy
- I.S. 252 Arthur S. Somers
- Kings Collegiate Charter School
- East Brooklyn Community High School
- Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Park
- P.s. 268 Emma Lazarus
- P.s. 219 Kennedy-King
- Linden Sitting Area
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- Lamad Averne Academy Charter 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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