A heavy open violation footprint highlights active water leak and access issues in a 6-unit subsidized building.
This 6-unit Bed-Stuy building operates as subsidized housing under LIHTC/HUD covenants, but open code violations have piled up across its small footprint. The building carries 35 open violations, including 11 Class C immediately hazardous citations for active water leaks, plaster damage, locked boiler access, and pest orders. Three things to know:
Apartment 1B carries a concentrated stack of open water leak and plaster violations. Inspectors issued open Class C violations for ceiling leaks, rotted flooring, and unkeyed plaster focused heavily on apartment 1B. When a single unit accumulates this many hazardous orders, water intrusion usually signals an unresolved riser leak or line issue above.
Commercial food establishment venting generates recurring odor signals within three blocks. Within three blocks of the building, residents logged 16 food establishment calls over the past 12 months. Commercial kitchen exhaust can drift into street-facing windows and shared residential hallways on lower floors.
Locked boiler access and missing detector citations mark recent Class C orders. Inspectors cited a Class C violation for a locked door preventing ready access to the basement boiler room, alongside open orders for missing smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in apartment 2A. Active orders also mandate mouse abatement in residential units.
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442 Madison Street is a 6-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3018260018). This building is associated with NYC HPD. Brix tracks 35 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1931, 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 80 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 September 8, 2026.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on June 29, 2016 for $6,439,124, according to recorded deeds.
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Unit 1B at 442 Madison Street has 31 open violations.
Unit 2A at 442 Madison Street has 3 open violations.
Unit 3A at 442 Madison Street has no open violations (12 past violations).
Unit 3B at 442 Madison Street has no open violations (6 past violations).
Unit DOORS at 442 Madison Street has no open violations (3 past violations).
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