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1491 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

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

No open housing violations. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.

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Open violations
None openNo open housing violations on record.
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 18 violations before that, the first in 2006.

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Inspector last found a problem
24 Nov 2014 (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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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

The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments, or how many.

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

18 closed violations, plus 4 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.

  • Properly secure the loose scuttle ladder at public hall, 3rd story

    Issued 24 Nov 2014Violation dismissed 22 Feb 2015§ 27-2005

  • 301, 302, m/d law file plans and obtain a certificate of occupancy to legalize the following alteration or restore premises to prior legal condition duplex apartment cellar part is being use for sleeping with no windows present in the entire apartment, 1st story at north

    Issued 11 Sept 2014Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Doors and windows§ 300

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

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2046.1

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration a 6' x 4' wood structure erected complete with roof at the north roof

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Roof and outside the building§ 300

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration 12' x 8' wood structure erected complete with roof at the north roof

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Roof and outside the building§ 300

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

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045

  • Rearrange television and/or radio antenna to be at least 10 feet above roof and not attached to any fire escape or soil or vent line

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Fire and safety equipment§ 62

  • Discontinue unlawful cooking space or file plans and application with this department to legalize same, if lawfully feasible, hot plate connected to propane gas tank in the kitchen at cellar

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014§ 27-2070

  • Discontinue use of rooms for living, disconnect plumbing fixtures and properly seal pipe connections at the bathroom and kitchen at cellar

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2081

  • Discontinue the unlawful keeping of pigeons at the north roof

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Roof and outside the building§ 12

  • File plans and application and legalize the following alteration or restore to the legal condition existing prior to the making of said alteration 15' x10' masonary extension erected at rear yard

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Roof and outside the building§ 300

  • Trace and repair the source and abate the nuisance consisting of mold... ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story

    Issued 26 Nov 2006Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Mold and damp§ 27-2005

  • Remove the illegal fastening padlock in the kitchen, 1st story

    Issued 26 Nov 2006Violation closed 1 Dec 2014§ 27-2005 +1

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

    Issued 26 Nov 2006Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • Replace with new the broken or defective west window frame bottom sash in the 4th room from north, 1st story

    Issued 26 Nov 2006Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Doors and windows§ 27-2005

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color ceiling in the 4th room from north, 1st story

    Issued 26 Nov 2006Violation closed 1 Dec 2014Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005

  • 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 100 watts required

    Issued 28 Sept 2010Violation closed 24 Nov 2014Electrical§ 27-2040

  • Remove the illegal fastening key operated double cylinder lock at entrance gate at front court, 1st story

    Issued 14 Dec 2008Violation closed 24 Nov 2014§ 27-2005 +1

22 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.

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

  • Noise1 / 8

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 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)
  • 2023No infested units reported (2021 report)
  • 2022No infested units reported (2020 report)
  • 2020No 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.

  • Owner of record and managing agent

    1491 GATES ST LLC

    Public records list 1491 GATES ST LLC as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 10 Sept 2026. Source: HPD registration.

  • Owner of record

    1491 GATES LLC

    Public records list 1491 GATES LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 10 Sept 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 recorded 1 mould violation here, most recently in 2006, 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 3033350040 · Block 3335, Lot 40 · Building class C2