695 Lafayette Avenue
Class B
Class C
12 months to Jul 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
- No open HPD violations — cleaner than 78% of buildings in this ZIP
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~5)
- Built in 2003 (city records)
About this building
City records list 2003 as the year built — newer than 91% of the 1,017 buildings we cover in ZIP 11216. The building’s floor space is 3.3 times the size of its lot: 6,507 sq ft of building on a 2,000 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of October 28, 2026.
695 Lafayette Avenue
Open in Google Street View ↗
- City records show no open HPD violations here — ask what was most recently repaired and how maintenance requests are handled, since a clean record isn’t a guarantee of upkeep.
695 Lafayette Avenue sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11216. The closest subway is Myrtle-Willoughby Avs (G) (6-minute walk), served by the G line.
Building Condition
- 2020-02-18
No HPD lead-paint violations on record. Built 2003, 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
- SEX CRIMES: 90
- HARRASSMENT 2: 76
- PETIT LARCENY: 71
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 40
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 34
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 96
- Noise - Residential: 70
- UNSANITARY CONDITION: 59
- Illegal Parking: 56
- PAINT/PLASTER: 47
- 220 KOSCIUSZKO STREET
- 759 DEKALB AVE
- 785 DEKALB AVENUE
- P.S. 256 Benjamin Banneker
- P.S. 025 Eubie Blake School
- P.S. 023 Carter G. Woodson
- Upper Academy At Ps 23
- Upper School @ P.S. 25
- The School for the Urban Environment
- New Dawn Charter High School
- Urban Dove Charter 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
- 79 Precinct Off-Street Parking
- Brooklyn Charter School
- Red Gate Garden
- Willoughby Playground
- First Quincy St Block Association
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 2,300 Mbps down · 2,300 Mbps up
How to check internet providers before signing an NYC lease →
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.
Market & Availability
Latest news from Weverit.
Tenant guides, law changes, and neighborhood reports — written in plain English, sourced from the same public records that power Weverit building reports.
September 2026 NYC Housing Lotteries: Who Qualifies
28 lotteries, 965 affordable units — who qualifies by income, plus rents, AMI bands and application windows, from public records.
Read article →
NYC Housing Connect Login Problems: Recover Your Account
Locked out of NYC Housing Connect? Learn how to reset your password, recover your email access, avoid duplicate applications, and contact HPD.
Read article →
Your Housing Connect Log Number Came Up. Here's What to Check Before You Sign.
A Housing Connect listing tells you the rent and the apartment size. It does not tell you how the building is run. Seven public records to check before you sign — and what a clean record does not mean.
Read article →
NYC's Smallest Apartment Buildings Have Four Times More Dangerous Violations Per Apartment Than Its Largest
We measured open HPD violations per apartment across NYC buildings. Buildings with six units or fewer carry four times the immediately-hazardous violations per apartment that buildings of 38+ units do — and they are the least likely to draw attention.
Read article →
Pets in your NYC apartment: the no-pet clause, the three-month rule, and what your landlord can actually enforce
NYC's three-month pet rule may protect tenants in some buildings. Learn about landlord notice, court deadlines, exceptions, and how to document your case.
Read article →
How to find out who owns your NYC apartment building
Most NYC buildings are owned through LLCs. Here's how to trace the owner through ACRIS, HPD registration, and DOF records — step by step.
Read article →
How to check a NYC building's complaint history — and what it actually means
Complaints and violations are not the same thing. Here's how to read HPD and DOB records — and what the patterns actually tell you about a building.
Read article →Recent building reports from Weverit.
The most recently generated reports from real NYC addresses — independent due-diligence on buildings tenants are actually checking.
209 West 109th Street
Free public-records report for 209 West 109th Street: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →170 West 107th Street
Free public-records report for 170 West 107th Street: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →2966 Richmond Ter
Free public-records report for 2966 Richmond Ter: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →430 Avenue Y
Free public-records report for 430 Avenue Y: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →430-1 Caswell Avenue
Free public-records report for 430-1 Caswell Avenue: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →2505 23rd Street
Free public-records report for 2505 23rd Street: violations, complaints, rent stabilization, transit, schools.
Read report →Check another building
Pull the same public-records report for any NYC address — free, no signup.
Never miss an affordable apartment
Weverit's lottery digest tracks new NYC Housing Connect lotteries and no-lottery re-rentals — one curated email.
Get the lottery digest →