479 Van Buren Street
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
- The most open HPD violations of any building in this ZIP (233 open)
- 32 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- More HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (20 vs ~4)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1931) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 20 of 20 units
About this building
The building’s floor space is 3 times the size of its lot: 15,072 sq ft of building on a 5,000 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
479 Van Buren Street
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- City records show 233 open HPD violations, 32 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 1989 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 20 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: Provide ready access to buildings heating system door locked at boiler room.
- 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.
479 Van Buren Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11221. The closest subway is Kosciuszko St (J) (2-minute walk), served by the J, M, and Z lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: December 1989 · Most recent: August 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.
- 2026-08-01
- 2026-08-01
- 2026-08-01
- 2026-07-03 "§ 27-2049 ADM CODE POST AND MAINTAIN A STREET NUMBER ON THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING PLAINLY VISIBLE FROM THE SIDEWALK."
- 2026-06-21
- 2020-06-01
- 2020-02-21
- 2019-12-09
- 2019-12-09
- 2019-11-13
- Class C · 32 open · penalty 480 · (15/ea)
- Class I · 1 open · penalty 1 · (1/ea)
- Class B · 145 open · penalty 725 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 55 open · penalty 55 · (1/ea)
- 2026-07-06 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2026-07-06 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · GENERAL
- 2026-07-06 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · GENERAL
- 2025-11-14 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2024 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
- 2023-06-30 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2020 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
- 2023-06-30 "VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2021 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION"
3 open lead-paint hazard violations on record (most recent 2019). These are HPD violations recorded against the building — not a test of any specific apartment.
4 earlier hazards cited and remediated.
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 1931). 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
- HARRASSMENT 2: 74
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 64
- PETIT LARCENY: 57
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 36
- OTHER OFFENSES RELATED TO THEFT: 32
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 224
- Noise - Residential: 110
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 92
- Dirty Condition: 72
- ELECTRIC: 53
- 479 VAN BUREN STREET
- 937A GREENE AVENUE
- 33 PATCHEN AVE
- P.S. 026 Jesse Owens
- P.S. 274 Kosciusko
- P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens
- Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business
- School of Business, Finance and Entrepreneurship
- M.S. 143 Performing & Fine Arts
- Frederick Douglass Academy IV Secondary School
- EBC High School for Public Service - Bushwick
- Bushwick Leaders High School for Academic Excellen
- Kosciuszko St
- Gates Av
- Central Av
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center, Inc.
- P.o. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
- Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
- P.s. 274 Kosciusko
- Junior Academy League
- P.s. 309 The George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy
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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