494 12th Street, Brooklyn

A late-19th-century Park Slope townhouse where indoor air quality calls and curb turnover define the immediate block footprint.

A two-family townhouse built in 1898 on 12th Street in Park Slope. With only two units, it generates negligible tenant-side filing, leaving surrounding block trends as the clearer signal for day-to-day conditions. Three things to know:

Indoor air quality complaints surface in the immediate vicinity. Within three blocks over the last year, three indoor air quality calls were logged. In low-rise rowhouses, airborne smells or fumes often creep through shared lightwells, party walls, or nearby ground-floor commercial exhaust setups.

Curb competition drives active parking complaints on surrounding streets. Within three blocks over the trailing 12 months, street calls logged 267 illegal parking complaints. The volume is driven by 107 blocked hydrants and 101 posted sign violations—short-turnover delivery and errand friction rather than abandoned cars.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 62 damaged tree reports within three blocks in the last 12 months, mainly fallen limbs and cracked branches.
• 59 street condition complaints in the surrounding three-block area, dominated by road cave-ins and noisy metal plates.

494 12th Street is a two-family home in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3010990023). This building is associated with Provenzano Robert J. Brix does not yet have a current violation read for this property (not enough recent data), along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1898, this two-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 January 14, 1986 for $35,000, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 100/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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