312 Covert Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Built 1906 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments
2 immediately hazardous violations open. 17 open in all. On the state's rent-stabilization list for 2024.
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- Open violations
- 172 · 15
- 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 | 15 | 0 |
Plus 3 violations from 1985 to 2021. Counted when issued, whether open or fixed since. Paperwork left out.
See every violation- Found most often since 2022
- Walls and ceilings 5
- Fire and safety equipment 4
- Doors and windows 2
- Open per apartment
- 2.8 (17 open across 6 apartments)
- Inspector last found a problem
- 30 Oct 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.
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 |
| 2026–27 (so far) | 1 | 1 | 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 filingThe 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 violationImmediately hazardous2 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 apartment entrance door in the entrance, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Replace or repair the self-closing doors that is missing or defective door at entrance in the entrance, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +3
Hazardous15 open
Class B. A hazardous condition: a leak, mould, a defective floor. The owner has 30 days to correct it.
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting device, installed in accordance with applicable law and rules defective in the entire apartment, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +3
Repair, replace or provide an approved and operational smoke detecting device, installed in accordance with department of buildings rules and regulations defective in the entire apartment, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2045 +2
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color at ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective ceramic wall tiles at east, west and north walls in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 30 Oct 2026Violation open 30 Oct 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective wood floor in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Floors and stairs§ 27-2005
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective wood floor in the 2nd room from north, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Floors and stairs§ 27-2005
Properly repair or replace the broken or defective inoperable second window from south at west in the kitchen, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color wooden door frame in the entrance, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Doors and windows§ 27-2005
Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color at north wall in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
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Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Properly repair the source and abate the evidence of a water leak at ceiling in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Leaks and plumbing§ 27-2026
Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective at ceramic tiles at south, west, and north walls. in the bathroom, 1st story at west
Issued 10 Sept 2026Notice sent out 10 Sept 2026Walls and ceilings§ 27-2005
Remove all encumbrances consisting of furnitures and household items under rear fire escape preventing drop ladder from dropping free to the ground, 1st story
Issued 20 Feb 2019Notice sent out 24 Feb 2019Fire and safety equipment§ 27-2005 +1
Remove the illegal fastening chain and padlock in gate 1st court from north at west
Issued 20 Feb 2019Notice sent out 24 Feb 2019§ 27-2005 +1
Paperwork and notices5 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.
×5File 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.
5 issued 24 Feb 2022 to 4 May 2026Notice sent outPaperwork and notices
1 closed violation, 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.
File certification of satisfactory installation of smoke detecting device in accordance with h.p.d. rules and regulations.
Issued 10 Jul 1985Violation closed 17 Oct 2017Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1
30 violations on record in total, 22 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.
17 complaints in three years, 16 of them in the last twelve months.
- Floors and stairs8 / 8
- Doors and windows4 / 4
- Leaks and plumbing1 / 1
- Noise1 / 1
- Walls and ceilings1 / 1
- Heat and hot water1 / 1
- Construction and illegal work0 / 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.
No marshal evictions recorded at this building since 2017.
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.
- 2021No infested units reported (2019 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.
Owner of record and managing agent
EDGAR ROMNEY
Public records list EDGAR ROMNEY as the owner of record and the registered managing agent for this address as of 26 Aug 2026. Source: HPD registration.
Owner of record
GLADYS ROMNEY
Public records list GLADYS ROMNEY as the owner of record for this address as of 26 Aug 2026. Source: HPD registration.
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What to ask at the viewing
312 Covert 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 2 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 2021). 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: 1 complaints in the last twelve months.
- 5 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.
- 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 17 open housing violations: 2 immediately hazardous, 15 hazardous and 0 non-hazardous. Paperwork filings, such as a late registration, are not counted.
Since 2022, HPD inspectors have written the most violations here for walls and ceilings (5), fire and safety equipment (4) and doors and windows (2).
On 30 Oct 2026. HPD only publishes inspections that found something, so a later visit that found nothing would not show here.
The owner registered at least one rent-stabilized apartment here with the state for 2024. The list does not say which apartments. A tenant can ask the state for an apartment's rent history to be sure.
No heat or hot-water complaints or violations were recorded here in the 2025–26 heat season.
No residential evictions by a city marshal are recorded here since 2017.
Not yet. Reviews come from people who lived here, and none has been published for this building.
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