239 Stanhope Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Built 1931 · 3-story walk-up with stores · 6 apartments
1 immediately hazardous violation open. 4 open in all.
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- Open violations
- 41 · 1 · 2
- Public record
- Updated yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 0 | 0 |
Plus 7 violations from 1990 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 2
- Walls and ceilings 2
- Open per apartment
- 0.7 (4 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 27 Oct 2022 (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.
Tenant reviews
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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.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 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 ready access to buildings heating system door locked at public hall, 1st story
Issued 25 Aug 2021Notice sent out 29 Aug 2021Heat and hot water§ 27-2033
Hazardous1 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Remove all encumbrances consisting of household items at public hall, 3rd story
Issued 27 Oct 2022Invalid certification 17 Nov 2022Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1
Non-hazardous2 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.
File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration cinder block walls cellar front & rear west creating rooms
Issued 25 Jun 1990Not complied with 25 Aug 2015Walls and ceilings§ 300
File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration metal studs & plaster board walls creating room cellar center east
Issued 25 Jun 1990Not complied with 25 Aug 2015Walls and ceilings§ 300
Paperwork and notices7 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.
×6File annual bedbug report in accordance with hpd rule as described on the back of this notice of violation or as described on hpds website, www.nyc.gov\hpd, search bed bugs.
6 issued 13 Apr 2021 to 6 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices
Owner failed to file a valid registration statement with the department as required by adm code §27-2097 and is therefore subject to civil penalties, prohibited from certifying violations, and denied the right to recover possession of premises for nonpayment of rent until a valid registration statement is filed.
Issued 20 Nov 2025Info notice sent out 19 Nov 2025Paperwork and notices§ 27-2107
7 closed violations, plus 5 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.
Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department at ceiling at public hall, 3rd story
Issued 27 Oct 2022Violation dismissed 26 Apr 2023Walls and ceilings§ 27-2013
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective fire retardant plaster at ceiling at public hall, 3rd story
Issued 27 Oct 2022Violation dismissed 21 Feb 2023Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Remove all encumbrances consisting of household items at public hall, 1st story
Issued 27 Oct 2022Violation dismissed 21 Feb 2023Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1
Arrange and make self-closing the doors in the entrance, 2nd story at north
Issued 25 Aug 2021Violation closed 28 Dec 2021Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005
Provide hot water at all hot water fixtures in the entire apartment, 2nd story at north
Issued 25 Aug 2021Violation closed 20 Sept 2021Heat and hot water§ 27-2031
Abate the nuisance consisting of rodents rats thru out 1 sty an apartment., section '' ''
Issued 26 Aug 1999Violation closed 24 Aug 2015Pests§ 27-2018
Abate the nuisance consisting of rodents droppings found 1 sty an apartment, section '' ''
Issued 19 Aug 1999Violation closed 24 Aug 2015Pests§ 27-2018
23 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.
1 complaint in three years, 0 of them in the last twelve months.
- Noise0 / 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.
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.
- 20171 eviction
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.
No bedbug report on file for this building. That usually means the owner did not file one, not that there is nothing to 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.
The most recent registration on file for this address expired 31 Aug 2025 and has not been renewed since, so it is more than a full cycle old. Whoever is named below may no longer be responsible for the building.
Registered managing agent
PAUL TOOBIAN
Public records list PAUL TOOBIAN as the registered managing agent for this address as of 20 Nov 2024. Source: HPD registration.
Other buildings listed under this agent (2 in the records we hold)
- 15 Wilson Avenue10 open violations · no reviews yet
- 1867 Madison Streetno open violations · no reviews yet
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Owner of record
239 STANHOPE ST CORP
Public records list 239 STANHOPE ST CORP as the owner of record for this address as of 20 Nov 2024. Source: HPD registration.
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What to ask at the viewing
239 Stanhope 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 one open immediately-hazardous violation on this building. Ask which apartment it concerns, whether it has been corrected, and when HPD re-inspects.
- The building's HPD registration is out of date or names nobody we could identify. Ask who the managing agent is and get a name, a phone number and an address in writing before you sign.
- 7 open violations for not filing something the city requires, usually the annual registration or the annual bedbug report. Nothing anyone lives in, but it is the record's plainest measure of whether this owner follows through. No bedbug report has ever been filed here, so the record cannot tell you the building's history — ask.
- 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 4 open housing violations: 1 immediately hazardous, 1 hazardous and 2 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 (2) and walls and ceilings (2).
On 27 Oct 2022. 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.
No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here in the 2025–26 heat season.
City marshals carried out 1 residential eviction here since 2017. The record says nothing about why, and most follow a case for unpaid rent.
Not yet. Reviews come from people who lived here, and none has been published for this building.
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