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1584 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

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

1 immediately hazardous violation open. 15 open in all.

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

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 15 violations before that, the first in 1978.

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Open per apartment
2.5 (15 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
10 Oct 2010 (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.

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

    Issued 11 May 2005Notice sent out 12 May 2005Heat and hot water§ 27-2031

Hazardous11 open

Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.

  • 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 minimum 100 watts of incandescent light required

    Issued 10 Oct 2010Notice sent out 12 Oct 2010Electrical§ 27-2040

  • 2011, 2012 adm code cleanse and disinfect to the satisfaction of this department after removing the water and sewage at basement

    Issued 29 Nov 2009Notice sent out 30 Nov 2009Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2010

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 1st story at east

    Issued 8 Jan 2009Notice sent out 11 Jan 2009Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of vermin roaches in the entire apartment, 3rd story

    Issued 22 Aug 2007Notice sent out 23 Aug 2007Pests§ 27-2018

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of vermin mice in the entire apartment, 3rd story

    Issued 22 Aug 2007Notice sent out 23 Aug 2007Pests§ 27-2018

  • Provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules. in the entire apartment, 3rd story

    Issued 22 Aug 2007Notice sent out 23 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing in the entire apartment, 3rd story

    Issued 22 Aug 2007Notice sent out 23 Aug 2007Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Properly secure the loose electrical light fixture at west wall at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 2 Nov 2005Notice sent out 3 Nov 2005Electrical§ 27-2005

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

    Issued 2 Nov 2005Notice sent out 3 Nov 2005Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Properly secure the loose 3 tread up front stair of bldg.

    Issued 28 Sept 1983Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008Floors and stairs§ D26-10.01

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  • Properly secure the loose handrail front entrance of bldg.

    Issued 28 Sept 1983Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008§ D26-10.01

Non-hazardous3 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.

  • Paint metal in accordance with dept. regulation cornice front of bldg.

    Issued 28 Sept 1983Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-10.01

  • Paint to the satisfaction of this department the exterior window frames and sashes front of bldg all stys.

    Issued 28 Sept 1983Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008Doors and windows§ D26-12.03

  • Provide fire retarding material at wall of cockloft 3 sty pub hall.

    Issued 30 Aug 1978Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-10.01

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.

    Issued 30 Aug 1978Notice sent out 29 Jun 2008Paperwork and notices§ 329

18 violations on record in total, 16 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.

5 complaints in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.

  • Pests0 / 3
  • Leaks and plumbing0 / 1
  • Noise0 / 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.

No marshal evictions recorded at this building since 2017.

Filings

Public filing

Building permits

No permit currently in force. 3 permits filed in the last five years.

Show 3 expired or finished

  • General Construction

    Propose to make Non-bearing partition changes in all six (6) apartments

    Issued 6 Oct 2025Expired 8 May 2026

  • Plumbing

    Propose to renovate Plumbing in all six (6) Apartments

    Issued 15 Feb 2023Expired 15 Feb 2024

  • Equipment work

    Issued 16 May 2021Expired 20 May 2022

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)
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  • 2025No infested units reported (2023 report)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2022 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2021No infested units reported (2019 report)
  • 2019No infested units reported (2018 report)
  • 2019No infested units reported (2017 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

    JOSEPH FRAGALA

    Public records list JOSEPH FRAGALA as the registered managing agent for this address as of 29 Aug 2026. Source: HPD registration.

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

    Show 7 more

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  • Owner of record

    QUIG-ROO TOO REALTY CORP

    Public records list QUIG-ROO TOO REALTY CORP as the owner of record for this address as of 29 Aug 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 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.
  3. Leaks and plumbing come up on this building's record. Ask which apartments were affected and whether the cause was ever found: 0 complaints in the last twelve months.
  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 3032480020 · Block 3248, Lot 20 · Building class C2