208 Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn

Public housing preservation building carrying three open code citations and recurring winter heating tickets.

This 19-unit Crown Heights building operates under NYCHA's PACT program with private management oversight across all 19 subsidized units. While day-to-day building operations are relatively contained, active code violations and surrounding block air-quality calls require scrutiny before signing. Three things to know:

Three open violations remain active, including an immediately hazardous door lock citation. Code enforcement carries three open violations on the property, highlighted by an immediately hazardous Class C citation for a broken entrance door lock in Apartment 2D from September 2024. Active Class B tickets also cite mold in Apartment 2C and an air conditioner blocking fire escape egress since July 2026.

Winter heat calls hit in concentrated waves across the building. 12 heating and hot water complaints were logged over the last year, with the most recent filed January 27, 2026. October 2025 saw tickets covering both individual apartments and entire building outages during early cold snaps.

Surrounding blocks log recurring air quality and food establishment exhaust calls. Within three blocks of the building, residents filed 9 indoor air quality calls through August 1, 2026, alongside 4 food establishment complaints through July 2026. This cluster indicates potential exhaust, fume, or riser bleed from nearby food retail.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 5 door and window calls recorded over three years, including entrance hardware issues.
• 4 water leak complaints filed over three years, often paired with heat tickets.
• 2 dumpster complaints logged on the building record in recent years.

208 Rochester Avenue is a 19-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3013730043). This building is associated with New York City Housing Development Fund Corporation. Brix tracks 4 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1917, this walk-up apartment building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 92 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:

• Heat/hot Water: 30 complaints
• Door/window: 20 complaints
• Water Leak: 14 complaints
• Plumbing: 12 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed September 22, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE FIRE PROOF DOOR IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 4A, 4th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH
• § 27-2005, 2007 ADM CODE AND DEPT
• § 27-2005 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR OR REPLACE THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE DOOR LOCK IN THE ENTRANCE LOCATED AT APT 2D, 2nd STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH
• § 27-2017

The building last changed hands on November 28, 2023, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 23/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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