277 Decatur Street, Brooklyn

A 19th-century Decatur Street three-family holding onto decades of family roots.

This 1889 Stuyvesant Heights townhouse stands as a three-family home held by the same family and its trusts for nearly forty years. It bypasses corporate flipping patterns, but there are open housing issues and street maintenance routines to review. Three things to know:

Eight open violations on the property. The building currently carries eight open housing-code violations. While none of them are marked as immediately hazardous class C violations, they still require physical follow-up and administrative clearance to get the record back to neutral.

Continuous family and trust stewardship since the 1980s. Deeds show the property has cycled through the same family, guardians, and family trusts since 1988, transferring most recently to a co-trustee in 2019. You are dealing with decades of continuous stewardship rather than a speculative developer.

Street-level maintenance stretches thin down the block. Within three blocks, there were 47 maintenance and facility complaints over the last year, primarily driven by 24 calls for overgrown grass and weeds. Residential noise remains typical for the area, with 39 calls nearby, mostly for music and block parties.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Illegal parking can crowd the surrounding blocks, with 43 calls within three blocks last year, mostly for sign violations.
• Local greenery needs upkeep: there were 37 complaints about damaged trees in the area over the last 12 months.
• Water system issues popped up on the surrounding blockfaces, triggering 24 complaints over the past year.
• The building stays largely out of operational friction, though the surrounding stretch requires active upkeep.

277 Decatur Street is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3016750052). This building is associated with Jones, Doris. Brix tracks 8 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1889, this walk-up apartment building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• (A) § HMC:FILE ANNUAL BEDBUG REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HPD RULE AS DESCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THIS NOTICE OF VIOLATION OR AS DESCRIBED ON HPDS WEBSITE, WWW
• §27-2107 ADM CODE OWNER FAILED TO FILE A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY ADM CODE §27-2097 AND IS THEREFORE SUBJECT TO CIVIL PEN

The building last changed hands on September 18, 2019, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Concerning (42/100). View the full report on Brix.

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