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308 Schaefer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Built 1929 · 3-story walk-up · 6 apartments

6 open violations, none immediately hazardous.

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Open violations
63 · 3
Public record
Updated todayFrom the city’s own data (, 311, the courts), refreshed nightly.

Violations issued each year

None issued since 2022. 7 violations before that, the first in 1981.

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Open per apartment
1 (6 open across 6 apartments)
Inspector last found a problem
26 Sept 1983 (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

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

Hazardous3 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 television 2 sty pub hall rear.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-10.01 +1

  • Repair the broken or defective plastered surfaces and paint in a uniform color ceiling 3 sty pub hall.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-10.01

  • Properly repair with similar material the broken or defective tile bathroom wall 2nd sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 8 Jun 1981Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-10.01

Non-hazardous3 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.

  • And dept. rules and regulations. scrape and remove rust scales and paint with 2 coats of paint east rear & west front fire escapes all stys.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Fire and safety equipment§ D26-12.03

  • Replace with new the missing flap door to cellar east rear yard.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Roof and outside the building§ D26-10.01

  • Paint with light colored paint to the satisfaction of this department walls northwest room 2nd sty an apartment., section '' ''

    Issued 8 Jun 1981Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Walls and ceilings§ D26-12.01

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.

  • Dept. rules and regs. provide a completed certificate of inspection visits in a proper frame at or near mailboxes, bottom edge of frame between 48-62 inches above floor frame missing.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Paperwork and notices§ 329

  • Paint or post a sign indicating floors on walls near stairs all stys pub hall.

    Issued 26 Sept 1983Notice sent out 23 Jun 2008Paperwork and notices§ D26-21.03

1 closed violation, plus 13 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.

  • File certification of satisfactory installation of smoke detecting device in accordance with h.p.d. rules and regulations.

    Issued 20 Jan 1982Violation closed 17 Oct 2017Fire and safety equipment§ D26-20.08 +1

22 violations on record in total, 8 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.

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

  • Noise1 / 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.

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)

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

    MEPRILIA GRANDOIT

    Public records list MEPRILIA GRANDOIT as the owner of record for this address as of 24 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 has 3 open hazardous violations on this building. Ask which apartments they concern and what has been done since.
  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 3034310046 · Block 3431, Lot 46 · Building class C2