A recent $3.45M ownership transfer sits alongside active work-without-a-permit complaints, open housing violations, and restaurant exhaust on the block.
A Greenpoint walk-up above commercial space that changed hands in November 2025 for $3.45M, ending nearly five decades of family ownership by Sharon Lim. The new landlord inherited active work-without-a-permit complaints and winter heating issues alongside ground-floor commercial activity. Three things to know:
Unpermitted work calls spiked right after the November 2025 sale. Six calls for work without a permit in an occupied dwelling were logged between December 2025 and March 2026, alongside multiple complaints of work continuing contrary to a stop-work order. Four housing-code violations remain open, including a class C violation for a defective self-closing vestibule door and a lockable knob blocking access to a fire escape on the third floor.
Ground-floor food operations bring exhaust and odor drift to the block. 13 food establishment complaints were logged within three blocks over the last year, reflecting heavy restaurant and food-service venting along Manhattan Avenue. For a three-unit walk-up directly above commercial space, exhaust, kitchen odors, and late-night kitchen cleanup fan noise can travel right up the back shaft or lightwell into residential units.
Early winter brought a wave of heating calls during the ownership handoff. Six heat and hot water complaints were logged over a single week in late October and early November 2025, right around the ownership transfer. While no open heat violations remain on file today, the sudden cluster points to seasonal startup trouble or boiler neglect during the handoff.
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708 Manhattan Avenue is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3026200039). This building is associated with 708 Manhattan Ave Property LLC. Brix tracks 4 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1930, this mixed-use building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 6 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.
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The most recent complaint on this building was filed November 2, 2025.
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The building last changed hands on November 25, 2025 for $3,450,000, according to recorded deeds.
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