A Crown Heights three-unit building where active code violations and surrounding indoor air quality calls warrant a closer look.
In a three-unit Crown Heights building, single-apartment open violations add up fast. Apartment 4 carries 7 open violations, including one Class C immediately hazardous ticket for a sealed fire escape window. Three things to know:
A Class C fire escape violation stays open in Apartment 4. Inspectors cited a sealed fire escape window in Apartment 4 as an immediate hazard alongside missing carbon monoxide and smoke detectors. That window ticket and six Class B maintenance violations remain open on the building's record.
Surrounding indoor air quality calls suggest commercial exhaust drift. Within three blocks of the building, 11 indoor air quality calls and 4 food establishment complaints were logged over the last 12 months, with the most recent air quality filing coming in June 2026. Odor and vapor complaints in mixed blocks often point to commercial kitchen exhaust or shared shaftway drift.
Heat complaints spiked during an October heating drop. Ten heating calls hit the building in a single day in October 2024. Building-wide heat complaints usually signal a boiler drop rather than an isolated radiator valve issue.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
585 Franklin Avenue is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3011990002). This building is associated with 585 F LLC. Brix tracks 7 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1910, this mixed-use building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 38 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed May 4, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on June 16, 2022 for $2,350,000, according to recorded deeds.
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Unit 4 at 585 Franklin Avenue has 7 open violations.
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