538 Lorimer 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
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~2)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1930) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 8 units registered
About this building
The building’s floor space is 2 times the size of its lot: 5,000 sq ft of building on a 2,500 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 29, 2026.
538 Lorimer Street
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- City records show 3 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 2024 — why has it stayed open this long, and is it in or near this unit?
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 8 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: File annual bedbug report in accordance with hpd rule as described on the back of this….
538 Lorimer Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11211. The closest subway is Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St (G,L) (2-minute walk), served by the G, J, L, and M lines.
Building Condition
Oldest open violation: April 2024 · 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
- 2024-04-10
- Class A · 3 open · penalty 3 · (1/ea)
- 1998-05-04
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 1930. 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
- PETIT LARCENY: 65
- HARRASSMENT 2: 43
- GRAND LARCENY: 42
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 38
- BURGLARY: 30
- Illegal Parking: 89
- Noise - Residential: 73
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 63
- Graffiti: 46
- Street Condition: 36
- 296 LEONARD ST
- 534 METROPOLITAN AVE
- 422 UNION AVENUE
- P.S. 018 Edward Bush
- P.S. 132 The Conselyea School
- P.S. 319
- Lyons Community School
- J.H.S. 049 William J. Gaynor
- Conselyea Preparatory School
- Lyons Community School
- Brooklyn Latin School, The
- The Williamsburg High School of Art and Technology
- Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St
- Graham Av
- Grand St
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Brooklyn Poets, Inc.
- Martinez Playground
- Lyons Community School
- The Williamsburg High School Of Art And Technology
- Leonard Library
- Ten Eyck Houses Garden
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 · 35 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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