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134 Grattan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Built 1931 · 4-story walk-up · 8 apartments

2 immediately hazardous violations open. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
22
Public record
Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202220
202300
202470
202510
2026 so far20

Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Fire and safety equipment 7
  • Garbage and cleanliness 3
  • Doors and windows 2
Open per apartment
0.3 (2 open across 8 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
19 Oct 2026 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?
Tenant-reported
A resident's firsthand account of living here, moderated before it publishes, and labelled with whether we verified they lived there.
Official violation
A city inspector visited and recorded a code violation. HPD's own words, and its own hazard class.
Public complaint
A complaint somebody made to a city system, through HPD or 311. A report, not a finding: nobody has necessarily inspected it.
Public filing
A permit, a registration, a bedbug report: a document the owner filed with the city because the law requires it.
Court record
A Housing Court case HPD brought against the owner, or an eviction a city marshal carried out. A court's record: a case is an allegation until it ends in a finding.
Insufficient data
Not enough current information here to infer a pattern either way.

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Heat season

Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 3 days.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26330
2026–27 (so far)110

The rules, 1 October to 31 May: from 6am to 10pm, when it is below 55°F outside, the apartment must be at least 68°F; overnight it must be at least 62°F whatever the weather. Hot water must be at least 120°F all year. A tenant without heat can report it to 311.

Rent stabilization

Public filing

The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments, or how many.

Source: Rent Guidelines Board building list, from the state's 2024 registrations. To know about one apartment, a tenant can ask the state for its rent history through Ask HCR.

City violations

Official violation

Immediately hazardous2 open

Class C. HPD considers the condition an immediate danger: no heat in winter, no hot water, lead paint where a child lives, a broken lock on the front door. The owner has 24 hours to correct it.

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective door at vestibule, 1st story

    Issued 19 Oct 2026Notice sent out 20 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective closer arm at building front entrance door, 1st story

    Issued 19 Oct 2026Notice sent out 20 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

10 closed violations, plus 10 closed paperwork filings

Closed means HPD recorded the violation as corrected, or dismissed it. Both appear here, because the difference matters and only HPD’s own status line says which it was.

  • Provide sufficient, proper and separate metal receptacles for the deposit of garbage, rubbish and other waste material and arrange for collection and disposal of such material.

    Issued 5 Jul 2025Violation dismissed 5 Oct 2025Garbage and cleanliness§ 27-2021

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective latch at vestibule door, 1st story

    Issued 22 Dec 2024Violation dismissed 6 Apr 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective latch at building front entrance door, 1st story

    Issued 10 Nov 2024Violation dismissed 17 Feb 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at building entrance door, 1st story

    Issued 22 Dec 2024Violation closed 29 Jan 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective latch at vestibule door, 1st story

    Issued 22 Dec 2024Violation closed 29 Jan 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective latch at building entrance door, 1st story

    Issued 10 Nov 2024Violation closed 24 Dec 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

  • 2011, 2012 adm code remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the building front

    Issued 27 Apr 2024Violation dismissed 24 Jul 2024Garbage and cleanliness§ 27-2010

  • 2011, 2012 adm code remove the accumulation of refuse and/or rubbish and maintain in a clean condition the discarded trash bags at building front

    Issued 24 Apr 2024Violation dismissed 24 Jul 2024Garbage and cleanliness§ 27-2010

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of potted plants and ladder at public hall stairs, 4th story

    Issued 19 Jan 2022Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of hohousehold items at public hall, 4th story

    Issued 19 Jan 2022Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

22 violations on record in total, 2 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.

Complaints to the city

Public complaint

Complaints are reports made to the city. They are not confirmed findings. They come from HPD and from 311, and the same problem can appear more than once if more than one neighbour called.

57 complaints in three years, 10 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Garbage and cleanliness4 / 16
  • Noise1 / 14
  • Pests1 / 12
  • Heat and hot water4 / 10
  • Paperwork and notices0 / 2
  • Electrical0 / 1
  • Doors and windows0 / 1
  • Walls and ceilings0 / 1

Last twelve months / last three years. The solid part of each bar is the last twelve months.

Court records

Court record

Housing Court cases

Cases the city’s housing department (HPD) brought against the owner, usually to force repairs or restore heat. A case is an allegation; where the court recorded an outcome, it is shown.

No HPD Housing Court cases on record for this building.

Evictions

Residential evictions carried out by a city marshal since 2017. Most follow a case for unpaid rent, so a count here is not by itself a finding about the building or the landlord. We show how many, never which apartment.

  • 20181 eviction

Filings

Public filing

Building permits

No permit currently in force. 1 permit filed in the last five years.

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  • General Construction

    INSTALLATION OF A NEW METAL DOOR AND FRAME, APPLICATION FILED TO ADDRESS ECB VIOLATION #39124306K

    Issued 22 Jan 2025Expired 23 Jun 2025

Annual bedbug report

Every multiple dwelling in New York must file this once a year. A report of zero infested units is good news. No report is not: failing to file is itself a violation.

  • 2026No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 5 earlier reports
  • 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)

Ownership and management

Public filing

Associations come from registration records and may be incomplete. Owners register with HPD once a year, so a change of hands can go unrecorded for a full cycle.

  • Owner of record and managing agent

    ZEV ZAFIR INC

    Public records list ZEV ZAFIR INC as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 20 Aug 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this owner and agent (8 in the records we hold)

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What to ask at the viewing

Drawn from this building’s record above. They are questions, not conclusions: the point is to find out, in the twenty minutes you get inside, what the public record cannot tell you.

  1. The city currently has 2 open immediately-hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern, how many are in the one you would be renting, and when HPD re-inspects.
  2. There were 4 heat or hot-water complaints here in the last twelve months. Ask who handles heat, how quickly it is usually restored, and whether the boiler has been replaced.
  3. There was 1 pest complaint here in the last twelve months. The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2026). Ask when the building was last treated, how often an exterminator comes, and whether treatment covers the whole line of apartments or only the one that complained.
  4. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  5. Ask who to call when something breaks, what happens after hours and at weekends, and how long a repair normally takes.

Ask for anything that matters in writing; an email after the viewing is enough. We are not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Questions about this building

BBL 3030100012 · Block 3010, Lot 12 · Building class C1