This three-unit townhouse has serious open housing-code violations concentrated in apartment 1, alongside food establishment and air quality reports nearby.
A three-unit Bedford-Stuyvesant residential building constructed in 2005 where title transferred to an LLC in April 2025. While three-unit townhouses often sit quietly under code enforcement, this address carries active housing-code citations centered on unit 1 alongside surrounding air quality and parking friction. Three things to know:
Open hazardous violations cluster inside the first-floor apartment. The address carries 28 open housing-code citations, including 10 class-C immediately hazardous violations. Violations from August 2024 and September 2023 cite recurring roach and mouse infestations alongside active water leaks, ceiling plaster damage, and mold in the first-floor apartment.
Food establishment and air quality reports surround the three-block radius. Within three blocks of the building, surrounding calls include 9 food establishment complaints and 4 indoor air quality reports over the trailing year. Odors and venting issues from commercial kitchens or ground-level food spaces typically travel upward through shafts, risers, and exterior lightwells.
Street parking enforcement and evening noise dominate surrounding blocks. The surrounding area generated 232 illegal-parking complaints within three blocks over the past 12 months, mostly posted parking sign violations (154) and blocked sidewalks (26), alongside 108 residential noise calls primarily for loud music and parties.
Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:
825 Madison Street is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3014810066). This building is associated with Emanuel Catechis. Brix tracks 36 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 2005, 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 154 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about unsanitary condition.
What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:
The most recent complaint on this building was filed April 12, 2025.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on April 28, 2025, according to recorded deeds.
Brix score: 32/100. View the Building Report on Brix.
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Unit 1 at 825 Madison Street has 19 open violations.
Unit 3 at 825 Madison Street has no open violations (1 past violation).
Unit 2 at 825 Madison Street has no open violations (9 past violations).
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