38 Hicks Street, Brooklyn

The Prizeman family held it for 49 years. The building has nothing to say to the city — the block does the talking.

38 Hicks is an 1860 row house on the quiet end of the Heights, a block from the Promenade. The same family owned it from January 1971 to May 2020 — 49 years — before selling for $2.95M. The building's own record with the city is essentially blank. The texture is all on the block.

Twenty-four corridor calls lifetime. Eight in the last three years. One in the last twelve months. The Promenade sits on the East River and the tourist helicopter route runs overhead. Corridor 311 logs the cooling: helicopter-noise calls used to be a steady background drumbeat, dropped sharply over the last three years, and the most recent one is from June 2025. The route hasn't moved; the rules around it have.

Fourteen residential-noise calls and eight commercial-noise calls in the last twelve months. Both within the last two weeks. Walking distance to the Henry / Montague restaurant strip means some of that strip walks back. The corridor's noise calls cluster around residential and commercial categories in roughly even measure, and the activity is current, not historical. The pattern is the expected Heights texture; the volume is worth knowing.

Ten illegal-parking calls and four blocked-driveway calls in the last twelve months on the corridor. These are the chronic narrow-street complaints of low-numbered Heights blocks — short curbs, garages that get blocked, neighbors who call. Not a building-level issue; a corridor pattern that anyone on this stretch lives with.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Two 2024 ACRIS assignments transferred the buyers' First Republic mortgage to JPMorgan, following the FRC failure. Paperwork, not a sale — the deed didn't move.
• The encampment cluster the corridor logged across 2022–2024 — eight calls in 36 months — has gone to zero in the last twelve, most recent May 2025.
• Thirteen lead-paint test kits requested across the corridor in three years. That's the old-housing baseline on a block of pre-Civil-War row houses, not a building-specific read.
• Seven damaged-tree calls in the corridor in the last year — the iconic Heights street trees losing limbs.

38 Hicks Street is a 1-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3002100014). This building is associated with Ewing, Elizabeth E. Brix tracks 0 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1860, this single-family home sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

The building last changed hands on June 4, 2024, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Clean (100/100). View the Building Report on Brix.

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