Long-held family ownership meets a active Franklin Avenue corridor.
A single-family Crown Heights home that has stayed in the same family line across decades of property records, with no recent work permits on file. Because single-family homes do not generate tenant-level housing paperwork, the underwriting is entirely about building maintenance and the block environment. Three things to know:
Decades of continuous family ownership. Deed transfers trace back to family ownership from 1986, with additional intra-family transfers in 2000. That multi-decade family hold means there is no landlord entity or institutional management behind the site.
Street life and evening noise dominate the surrounding blocks. 274 residential-noise calls and 161 street-noise complaints were filed within three blocks over the last 12 months, mostly driven by loud music and parties. Franklin Avenue carries steady foot traffic and nightlife bleed late into the evening.
Curb space is heavily contested. 251 illegal-parking complaints were logged within three blocks over the last year. The calls concentrate around blocked sidewalks and hydrants—typical for commercial stretches with active unloading rather than stored cars.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
665 Franklin Avenue is a 1-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3012240011). This building is associated with Coleridge L Mclean Jr. 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 1920, this mixed-use building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
The building last changed hands on April 17, 2013 for $150,000, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 100/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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