396 Cornelia Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Built 1901 · 4-story walk-up · 6 apartments
7 immediately hazardous violations open. 15 open in all.
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- Open violations
- 157 · 7 · 1
- Public record
- Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.
Violations issued each year
| Year | Hazardous | Non-hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 so far | 8 | 0 |
Plus 14 violations from 2010 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Heat and hot water 5
- Fire and safety equipment 2
- Entry, buzzer and mail 1
- Open per apartment
- 2.5 (15 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 1 Feb 2026 (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.
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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
Last winter (2025–26), the city received heat or hot-water complaints about this building on 2 days, and inspectors issued 5 violations.
| Winter | DaysDays with complaints | Complaints | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
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 hazardous7 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.
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges at door leading to rear yard in the kitchen, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective dual heating/cooling unit in the 2nd room from north at west, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2005
Provide an adequate supply of heat for the apartment in the entire apartment, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 1 Feb 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2029
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective dual heating/cooling unit at north wall in the 1st room from north, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2005
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective dual heating/cooling unit at north wall in the 1st room from north lower level, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2005
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective hinges in the entrance, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective dual heating/cooling unit at south wall in the 2nd room from north lower level, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Heat and hot water§ 27-2005
Hazardous7 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective intercommunication sysyem from building front to west wall in the foyer, 1st story at east
Issued 1 Feb 2026Notice sent out 8 Feb 2026Entry, buzzer and mail§ 27-2005
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in uniform color at ceiling in the foyer, 1st story
Issued 12 Sept 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Replace with new the broken or defective base cabinet unit at sink in the kitchen, 1st story
Issued 12 Sept 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005
Replace with new the broken or defective base cabinet at sink in the kitchen, 1st story
Issued 22 May 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005
Provide an adequate supply of gas to the fixtures gas range in the entire apartment, 1st story
Issued 22 May 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Appliances§ 27-2073
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in uniform color ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story
Issued 21 Apr 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Abate the nuisance consisting of no electrical supply in the entire apartment, 1st story
Issued 21 Apr 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2005 +1
Non-hazardous1 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.
Replace with new the missing draw front base cabinet in the kitchen, 1st story
Issued 21 Apr 2011First no access to re- inspect violation 30 Aug 2017Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Paperwork and notices2 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.
×2File 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.
2 issued 9 Jun 2025 to 4 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices
7 closed violations, plus 7 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.
Abate the nuisance consisting of exsposed electric wire at vestibule, 1st story
Issued 12 Sept 2011Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2005
Provide adequate lighting for at least 60 watts at public hall, 1st story
Issued 28 May 2011Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2038
Provide adequate lighting for 6o watts required at public hall, 1st story
Issued 22 May 2011Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2038
Abate the nuisance consisting of no electric supply to all fixtures all stories public hall at public hall
Issued 15 Mar 2011Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2005
Abate the nuisance consisting of no electric supply to all fixtures in the entire apartment, 1st story
Issued 15 Mar 2011Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Electrical§ 27-2005
Replace with new the broken or defective sink base cabinet in the kitchen, 1st story at east
Issued 20 Mar 2010Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in uniform color south wall under the sink cabinet in the kitchen, 1st story at east
Issued 20 Mar 2010Violation closed 27 Aug 2017Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2005
31 violations on record in total, 17 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.
2 complaints in three years, 2 of them in the last twelve months.
- Heat and hot water2 / 2
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.
2 cases, all closed.
Heat and Hot Water
Opened 27 Feb 2012
Tenant Action
Opened 31 Mar 2011
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.
- 20241 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.
- 2024No infested units reported (2022 report)
Show 2 earlier reportsShow fewer
- 2020No infested units reported (2019 report)
- 2019No infested units reported (2017 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
EMERSON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC
Public records list EMERSON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC as the registered managing agent for this address as of 13 Aug 2024. Source: HPD registration.
Other buildings listed under this agent (1 in the records we hold)
- 316 Himrod Street1 open violation · no reviews yet
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Owner of record
MERAL CORNELIA LLC
Public records list MERAL CORNELIA LLC as the owner of record for this address as of 13 Aug 2024. Source: HPD registration.
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What to ask at the viewing
396 Cornelia 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 7 open immediately-hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern, how many are in the one you would be renting, and when HPD re-inspects.
- The owner has filed a bedbug report for this building (most recently for the year ending 2024). 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 15 open housing violations: 7 immediately hazardous, 7 hazardous and 1 non-hazardous. Paperwork filings, such as a late registration, are not counted.
Since 2022, HPD inspectors have written the most violations here for heat and hot water (5), fire and safety equipment (2) and entry, buzzer and mail (1).
On 1 Feb 2026. 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.
In the 2025–26 heat season the city received heat or hot-water complaints on 2 days, and HPD issued 5 heat violations.
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.
BBL 3033860024 · Block 3386, Lot 24 · Building class C2