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238 Troutman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

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

1 immediately hazardous violation open.

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Open violations
11
Public record
Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202200
202300
202481
2025140
2026 so far00

Plus 6 violations from 2006 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Heat and hot water 10
  • Appliances 3
  • Entry, buzzer and mail 2
Open per apartment
0.2 (1 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
24 Feb 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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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

Immediately hazardous1 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.

  • Correct the lead-based paint hazard - paint that tested positive for lead content and that is peeling or on a deteriorated subsurface - using work practices set forth in 28 rcny §11-06(b)(2) 1st door frame from south at west wall in the kitchen, 2nd story at east

    Issued 30 Jun 2006Defect letter issued 21 Aug 2013Lead paint§ 27-2056.6

28 closed violations

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.

  • Abate the infestation consisting of mice in the entire apartment, 3rd story at north

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 21 May 2025Pests§ 27-2017.4

  • ×2Provide ready access to buildings heating system locked door at cellar at boiler room

    2 issued 16 Feb 2025 to 24 Feb 2025Violation dismissedHeat and hot water§ 27-2033

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

    Issued 24 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 11 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the entire apartment, 3rd story at west

    Issued 24 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 11 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2029

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the entire apartment, 3rd story at north

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 11 May 2025Appliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures no gas at range in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 11 May 2025Appliances§ 27-2070

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures at range in the kitchen, 2nd story at west

    Issued 16 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 11 May 2025Appliances§ 27-2070

  • ×2Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north

    2 issued 23 Oct 2016 to 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissedHeat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of heat from an approved central heating system, or an approved system of gas or electrical heating in good operating condition for the dwelling unit in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 4 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2028 +1

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

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 4 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of heat from an approved central heating system, or an approved system of gas or electrical heating in good operating condition for the dwelling unit in the entire apartment, 3rd story at north

    Issued 19 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 4 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2028 +1

  • Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west

    Issued 16 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 4 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

  • Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west

    Issued 16 Feb 2025Violation dismissed 4 May 2025Heat and hot water§ 27-2029

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of bicycle at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 26 Jul 2024Violation dismissed 20 Nov 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective light fixture at south wall at public hall, 2nd story

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 8 Sept 2024Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Remove the torn and/or loose floor covering at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 8 Sept 2024Floors and stairs§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective ceramic floor tiles at vestibule area at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 8 Sept 2024Floors and stairs§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective intercom buzzer at east wall in the entrance, 3rd story at north

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 30 Jul 2024Entry, buzzer and mail§ 27-2005

  • Properly repair or replace the broken or defective mailbox door from an apartment at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 30 Jul 2024Entry, buzzer and mail§ 27-2005

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

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 30 Jul 2024Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3

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

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation dismissed 30 Jul 2024Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Trace and repair the source and abate the visible mold condition... approximately 2 sq.ft. at east wall in the bathroom, 3rd story at north

    Issued 8 May 2024Violation closed 29 Jul 2024Mold and damp§ 27-2017.3

  • Fire egress defective. remove obstructing bars or unlawful gates from window to fire escape or provide approved type gate.., 2nd story at west

    Issued 31 Aug 2009Violation dismissed 30 Jun 2019Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures gas range in the kitchen, 2nd story at north

    Issued 23 Oct 2016Violation dismissed 12 Jan 2017Appliances§ 27-2070

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

    Issued 23 Oct 2016Violation dismissed 12 Jan 2017Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of evidence of leak at east wall at south

    Issued 16 Jun 2009Violation closed 21 Aug 2013Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005 +1

29 violations on record in total, 1 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.

26 complaints in three years, 1 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Heat and hot water0 / 17
  • Noise0 / 3
  • Doors and windows0 / 2
  • Entry, buzzer and mail0 / 1
  • Cooking gas0 / 1
  • Leaks and plumbing1 / 1
  • Pests0 / 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.

2 cases, all closed.

  • Heat and Hot Water

    Opened 7 Apr 2025

  • Heat and Hot Water

    Opened 29 Nov 2016

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 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
  • 2024No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No 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.

  • Registered managing agent

    ALEXANDER STEGMANN

    Public records list ALEXANDER STEGMANN as the registered managing agent for this address as of 28 Jul 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (17 in the records we hold, 10 shown)

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  • Owner of record

    238 TROUTMAN LLC

    Public records list 238 TROUTMAN LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 28 Jul 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 city currently has one open immediately-hazardous violation on this building. Ask which apartment it concerns, whether it has been corrected, and when HPD re-inspects.
  2. The city recorded 1 mould violation here, most recently in 2024, all since closed. Closed means the city stopped checking, not that the damp is gone. Ask to look behind furniture and under sinks, and ask what was done the last time; a repaint is not a repair.
  3. 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.
  4. This building dates from 1931 and has 1 open lead-paint violation on record. If a child under six will live here, ask what testing and remediation has been done and ask for it in writing.
  5. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  6. 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 3031860020 · Block 3186, Lot 20 · Building class C2