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296 Linden 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 yesterdayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

Violations issued each year
YearHazardousNon-hazardous
202200
202300
202400
202520
2026 so far00

Plus 11 violations from 2010 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.

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Found most often since 2022
  • Fire and safety equipment 2
Inspector last found a problem
16 Sept 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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Tenant-reported

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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. 14 violations in the record, all of them closed.

13 closed violations, plus 1 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.

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of bicycle/household items. at public hall, 2nd story

    Issued 16 Sept 2025Violation dismissed 19 Jan 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Remove all encumbrances consisting of furniture at public hall, 1st story

    Issued 16 Sept 2025Violation dismissed 19 Jan 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 11 Jul 2012Violation closed 4 Feb 2021Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • ×2Repair or replace the carbon monoxide detecting device(s). defective in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    2 issued 11 Jul 2012 to 31 Jan 2019Violation closedFire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

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

    Issued 9 Mar 2010Violation closed 4 Feb 2021Heat and hot water§ 27-2033

  • Trace and repair the source and abate the nuisance consisting of mold... approx., 2 square feet on the east wall in the 2nd room from north, 2nd story

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation dismissed 15 May 2019Mold and damp§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the ceiling in the 2nd bathroom from east, 2nd story

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation closed 23 Apr 2019Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the ceiling in the 1st bathroom from east, 2nd story

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation closed 23 Apr 2019Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color the ceiling in the 1st room from north at west, 2nd story

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation closed 23 Apr 2019Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Repair or replace the smoke detector missing in the entire apartment, 2nd story

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation closed 23 Apr 2019Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Abate the nuisance consisting of mice in the entire apartment, 2nd story at west

    Issued 31 Jan 2019Violation closed 23 Apr 2019Pests§ 27-2018

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

    Issued 14 Oct 2015Violation dismissed 6 Jan 2016Pests§ 27-2018

14 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.

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

  • Appliances0 / 1
  • Leaks and plumbing1 / 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.

  • 20191 eviction
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • 2020No infested units reported (2018 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

    FREESTONE PROPERTY GROUP LLC

    Public records list FREESTONE PROPERTY GROUP LLC as the registered managing agent for this address as of 30 Jun 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this agent (26 in the records we hold, 10 shown)

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  • Owner of record

    TOWNHOUSE RENTAL, LLC

    Public records list TOWNHOUSE RENTAL, LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 30 Jun 2026. Source: HPD registration.

    Other buildings listed under this owner (20 in the records we hold, 10 shown)

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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 recorded 1 mould violation here, most recently in 2019, 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Ask what the deposit is, exactly what can be deducted from it, and how and when it comes back.
  4. 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 3033350020 · Block 3335, Lot 20 · Building class C2