653 Dekalb 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
- 4 open hazardous (Class C) violations
- Built in 2009 (city records)
- Rent-stabilized: 6 units registered
About this building
City records list 2009 as the year built — newer than 93% of the 1,017 buildings we cover in ZIP 11216. The building’s floor space is 2.8 times the size of its lot: 5,250 sq ft of building on a 1,875 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
653 Dekalb Avenue
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- City records show 12 open HPD violations, 4 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?
- 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: Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective at building entrance.
- 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.
653 Dekalb Avenue sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11216. The closest subway is Myrtle-Willoughby Avs (G) (4-minute walk), served by the G line.
Building Condition
Issued July 2022. 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.
- 2021-05-19
- 2021-05-19
- 2021-05-19 "§ 27-2045 ADM CODE REPAIR OR REPLACE THE SMOKE DETECTOR MISSING AT PUBLIC HALL, 1st STORY"
- 2021-05-19
- 2020-10-01
- Class C · 4 open · penalty 60 · (15/ea)
- Class B · 1 open · penalty 5 · (5/ea)
- Class A · 7 open · penalty 7 · (1/ea)
- 2026-02-11 · Apt BLDG · EMERGENCY · HEAT/HOT WATER
- 2017-08-29 "STOP ALL WORK IMMEDIATELY MAKE SITE SAFE CONTACT BOROUGH COMMISSIONER' S OFFICE AT 718 802-3677 FOR INFO"
- 2016-02-25 "STOP ALL WORK IMMEDIATELY MAKE SITE SAFE ONLY, CONTACT BOROUGH COMM. O OFICE AT 718 802-3677 FOR INFORMATION"
- 2014-05-21 "FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION"
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 2009, after the 1978 federal ban on lead paint in residential use. Owners must still address any lead hazard that is later identified.
The Building
Neighborhood & Environment
~1 block 300m
~2-3 blocks
- PETIT LARCENY: 130
- HARRASSMENT 2: 66
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 37
- GRAND LARCENY: 31
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 24
- Noise - Residential: 37
- Blocked Driveway: 35
- Illegal Parking: 28
- General Construction/Plumbing: 24
- Noise: 14
- 643 MARCY AVENUE
- 230 NOSTRAND AVE
- 691 DEKALB AVENUE
- P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker
- P.S. 054 Samuel C. Barnes
- P.S. 023 Carter G. Woodson
- Upper Academy At Ps 23
- Success Academy Charter School - Bed-Stuy 1
- P.S. 368
- Urban Dove Charter School
- New Dawn Charter High School
- P.S. 368
- Myrtle-Willoughby Avs
- Bedford-Nostrand Avs
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Grade A
- Hart To Hart
- Brooklyn Charter School
- Red Gate Garden
- Spencer St Block Association
- Willoughby Playground
- Greene Av United Neighbors Association *
Internet providers serving this area
Internet providers available in this area — including fiber:
- Astound Broadband Fiber Up to 1,500 Mbps down · 1,500 Mbps up
- Verizon Fiber Up to 980 Mbps down · 880 Mbps up
- Optimum Cable Up to 940 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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