85 Devoe 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
- No open HPD violations — cleaner than 62% of buildings in this ZIP
- Fewer HPD complaints than the neighborhood average (0 vs ~2)
- Built before 1939 (city records: 1920) — likely subject to NYC lead-paint rules
- Rent-stabilized: 31 of 31 units
About this building
31 apartments — the most of any of the 4 buildings we cover on this block. The building’s floor space is 3.6 times the size of its lot: 27,000 sq ft of building on a 7,500 sq ft lot.
Comparisons with neighboring buildings, as of November 5, 2026.
85 Devoe Street
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- 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.
- DHCR’s most recent registration lists 31 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.
85 Devoe Street sits in Brooklyn, ZIP 11211. The closest subway is Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St (G,L) (4-minute walk), served by the G and L lines.
Building Condition
- 2021-04-29 "FAILURE TO DISPLAY ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCORE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRADE AS PER ADCODE SEC. 28-309.12.3"
- 2019-05-02 "FAILURE TO FILE BENCHMARKING REPORT OF ENERGY USE AS PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-309.4"
- 2002-03-26
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 1920. 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: 58
- GRAND LARCENY: 43
- HARRASSMENT 2: 36
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF & RELATED OF: 33
- ASSAULT 3 & RELATED OFFENSES: 23
- Noise - Residential: 107
- HEAT/HOT WATER: 68
- Illegal Parking: 53
- Graffiti: 34
- Missed Collection: 20
- 296 LEONARD ST
- 685 METROPOLITAN AVENUE
- 629 GRAND STREET
- P.S. 132 The Conselyea School
- P.S. 018 Edward Bush
- P.S. 319
- Lyons Community School
- J.H.S. 049 William J. Gaynor
- John Ericsson Middle School 126
- 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
- North 10th & Union Avenue Plaza
- Father Giorgio Triangle
- Leonard Library
- Brooklyn Poets, Inc.
- Building Maintenance Section
- Mt. Carmel Triangle
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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