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241 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Built 1931 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

No open housing violations.

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Open violations
None openNo open housing violations on record.
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202200
202300
202472
202530
2026 so far00

Plus 3 violations from 2014 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Leaks and plumbing 5
  • Walls and ceilings 4
  • Fire and safety equipment 2
Inspector last found a problem
24 Jun 2025 (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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Nothing above this section came from a tenant. It is all filed by the city, which means it only holds what somebody reported and an inspector wrote down, not what it is actually like to live here.

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Heat season

No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here last winter (2025–26). That is the city's record: it only holds what somebody reported.

WinterDaysComplaintsViolations
2025–26000

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

This building is not on the state's list of buildings with rent-stabilized apartments for 2024. That is not proof none are: an owner who did not register is missing from the list too.

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

Nothing open. 18 violations in the record, all of them closed.

15 closed violations, plus 3 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 adequate lighting at or near the outside of the front entranceway of the building and keep same burning from sunset every day to sunrise on the day following 100 watts minimum required (light fixtures present)

    Issued 29 May 2014Violation closed 2 Jan 2026Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Properly secure the loose light fixture at ceiling at public hall stairs, 1st story

    Issued 24 Jun 2025Violation dismissed 28 Sept 2025Floors and stairs§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at skylight and ceiling at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 24 Jun 2025Violation dismissed 28 Sept 2025Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective fire retardant plaster at ceiling at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 24 Jun 2025Violation dismissed 28 Sept 2025Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at electrical light fixture at ceiling in the 1st room from north, 3rd story at north

    Issued 23 May 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color at ceiling and west wall. in the 1st room from north, 3rd story at north

    Issued 23 May 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at ceiling in the 2nd room from east, 3rd story at north

    Issued 23 May 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Repair the roof so that it will not leak over the ceiling at upper level in the 4th room from north at east, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the ceiling and south wall in the 4th room from north at east, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the ceiling and east wall in the kitchen, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). defective in the entire apartment, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair the roof so that it will not leak over the ceiling in the kitchen, 3rd story at east

    Issued 10 Jan 2024Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005

  • Provide ready access to buildings heating system doors locked to boiler room at cellar

    Issued 8 Mar 2018Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 3rd story at north

    Issued 8 Mar 2018Violation closed 24 Jun 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

18 violations on record in total, 0 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.

18 complaints in three years, 2 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Walls and ceilings0 / 4
  • Noise2 / 3
  • Leaks and plumbing0 / 3
  • Electrical0 / 3
  • Pests0 / 1
  • Mold and damp0 / 1
  • Doors and windows0 / 1
  • Construction and illegal work0 / 1
  • Other0 / 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.

1 case, all closed.

  • Heat and Hot Water

    Opened 1 May 2018

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 DOB permits filed for this building in the last five years.

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.

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

  • Registered managing agent

    JOEL LEFKOWITZ

    Public records list JOEL LEFKOWITZ as the registered managing agent for this address as of 20 Sept 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (4 in the records we hold)

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  • Owner of record

    241 JEFFERSON ST LLC

    Public records list 241 JEFFERSON ST LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 20 Sept 2026. Source: HPD registration.

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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 owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2025). 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.
  2. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  3. 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 3031650045 · Block 3165, Lot 45 · Building class C2