319 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Built 1931 · 4-story walk-up · 8 apartments
5 immediately hazardous violations open. 10 open in all.
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- Open violations
- 105 · 4 · 1
- Public record
- Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 20 | 1 |
Plus 1 violation from 2011 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Fire and safety equipment 19
- Doors and windows 5
- Heat and hot water 5
- Open per apartment
- 1.3 (10 open across 8 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 6 Oct 2026 (visits that find nothing are not published)
What do these labels mean?Where each of these comes from
- 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
Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 3 days, and inspectors issued 3 violations.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026–27 (so far) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 filingThis 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 violationImmediately hazardous5 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.
Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to buildings heating system signage missing at public hall, 1st story
Issued 6 Oct 2026Notice certified on time 13 Oct 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 3rd story at south
Issued 22 Sept 2026First no access to re- inspect violation 6 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the entire apartment, 1st story at west
Issued 15 Feb 2025Notice certified late 4 Mar 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2029
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 2nd story at west
Issued 15 Feb 2025Not complied with 23 Mar 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Correct the lead-based paint hazard - presumed lead paint that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface using work practices set forth in 28 rcny ?11-06(b)(2) west wall in the 1st room from north, 2nd story at east
Issued 17 Apr 2011Notice sent out 24 Apr 2011Lead paint§ 27-2056.6
Hazardous4 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Replace with new the missing shower faucet in the bathroom, 3rd story at south
Issued 22 Sept 2026Civ14 mailed 14 Oct 2026Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005
Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at cieling in the bathroom, 3rd story at south
Issued 22 Sept 2026Civ14 mailed 14 Oct 2026Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective mortise lock at building entrance door, 1st story
Issued 22 Sept 2026Notice certified on time 13 Oct 2026Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the cieling in the bathroom, 3rd story at south
Issued 22 Sept 2026Civ14 mailed 14 Oct 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Non-hazardous1 open
Class A. The least serious band: chipped plaster, a missing cabinet, a peeling ceiling in a hallway. The owner has 90 days to correct it.
Trace and repair the source and abate the visible mold condition... less than 10 sq feet observed at cieling in the bathroom, 3rd story at south
Issued 22 Sept 2026Notice of issuance sent to tenant 27 Sept 2026Mold and damp§ 27-2017.3
Paperwork and notices1 open
The owner failed to file something the city requires, most often the annual property registration or the annual bedbug report. Real violations, and they say something about an owner, but not a condition anyone is living in. Kept out of the count at the top of this page for that reason.
Dept. rules and regs. provide a completed certificate of inspection visits in a proper frame at or near mailboxes, bottom edge of frame between 48-62 inches above floor frame missing at public hall, 1st story
Issued 6 Oct 2026Notice certified on time 13 Oct 2026Paperwork and notices§ 329
26 closed violations, plus 7 closed paperwork filingsShow fewer
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.
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at building entrance door
Issued 6 Oct 2026Violation closed 15 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective latch at building entrance door
Issued 5 Oct 2026Violation closed 15 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at door leading to basement at public hall, 1st story
Issued 29 Sept 2026Violation closed 7 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at building entrance door, 1st story
Issued 29 Sept 2026Violation closed 7 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at door to cellar at public hall, 1st story
Issued 15 Feb 2025Violation closed 30 Apr 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Post notice, in form approved by the department, stating the name and location of the person designated by the owner to have key to buildings heating system missing apartment number at public hall, 1st story
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at east
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at east
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2
Provide ready access to buildings heating system door locked at boiler room
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Abate the nuisance consisting of key operated lock at door to fire escape window in the 1st room from north, 2nd story at west
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 19 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1
Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation dismissed 17 Mar 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2031
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 1st story at south
Issued 12 Dec 2025Violation dismissed 3 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 2nd story at west
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation closed 2 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 2nd story at east
Issued 1 Jan 2026Violation closed 2 Mar 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
×2Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 1st story at west
2 issued 15 Feb 2025 to 30 Aug 2025Violation dismissedFire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 21 Mar 2025Violation dismissed 11 Jun 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1
Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west
Issued 21 Mar 2025Violation dismissed 11 Jun 2025Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective mortise lock-set at door in the entrance, 2nd story at west
Issued 15 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 15 May 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Abate the nuisance consisting of key operated lock at room door to fire-escape in the 1st room from north, 2nd story at west
Issued 15 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 15 May 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005 +1
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective mortise lock-set at door in the entrance, 1st story at west
Issued 15 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 15 May 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective lock-set at door to cellar at public hall, 1st story
Issued 15 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 15 May 2025Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Replace with new the missing balluster at public hall stairs, 1st story
Issued 7 May 2024Violation dismissed 17 Sept 2024Floors and stairs§ 27-2005
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective ceramic floor tiles at public hall, 1st story
Issued 7 May 2024Violation dismissed 31 Jul 2024Floors and stairs§ 27-2005
44 violations on record in total, 11 of them open. The count at the top of this page counts habitability violations only.
Complaints to the city
Public complaintComplaints 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.
30 complaints in three years, 9 of them in the last twelve months.
- Pests0 / 8
- Heat and hot water3 / 5
- Doors and windows3 / 4
- Other0 / 3
- Leaks and plumbing1 / 2
- Floors and stairs0 / 2
- Mold and damp0 / 2
- Garbage and cleanliness0 / 1
- Noise1 / 1
- Electrical0 / 1
- Appliances1 / 1
Last twelve months / last three years. The solid part of each bar is the last twelve months.
Court records
Court recordHousing 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.
Tenant Action
Opened 5 Oct 2006
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.
No marshal evictions recorded at this building since 2017.
Filings
Public filingBuilding 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.
- 2026No infested units reported (2024 report)
Show 8 earlier reportsShow fewer
- 2026No infested units reported (2024 report)
- 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
- 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
- 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
- 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
- 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
- 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
- 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)
Ownership and management
Public filingAssociations 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
J JEFFERSON INC
Public records list J JEFFERSON INC as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 23 Jul 2025. Source: HPD registration.
Wrong company, wrong date, or a change that is not reflected here? Report a correction.
What to ask at the viewing
319 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
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.
- The city currently has 5 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.
- There were 3 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.
- There is 1 open mould violation on record. Ask to look behind furniture and under sinks, and ask what was done the last time; a repaint is not a repair.
- 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.
- Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
- 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
Yes. HPD lists 10 open housing violations: 5 immediately hazardous, 4 hazardous and 1 non-hazardous. Paperwork filings, such as a late registration, are not counted.
Since 2022, HPD inspectors have written the most violations here for fire and safety equipment (19), doors and windows (5) and heat and hot water (5).
On 6 Oct 2026. HPD only publishes inspections that found something, so a later visit that found nothing would not show here.
It 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.
In the 2025–26 heat season the city received heat or hot-water complaints on 3 days, and HPD issued 3 heat violations.
No residential evictions by a city marshal are recorded here since 2017.
Not yet. Reviews come from people who lived here, and none has been published for this building.
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