47 Harman Street, Brooklyn

A Bushwick townhouse facing outstanding safety hazards and recent utility outages.

This property is navigating notable physical friction and a recent deed transfer. While its small footprint keeps residential traffic low, the building carries multiple unresolved immediately hazardous safety issues in the public record. Three things to know:

Ten immediately hazardous violations remain open. Inspectors flagged critical safety issues, focusing on missing self-closing hinges on multiple apartment entrances and the main vestibule door, alongside a locked boiler room door that blocked access to the heating setup. Cellar inspections also turned up exposed electrical wiring and broken fire-retardant ceiling materials.

A major heating and cooking gas disruption hit the building last autumn. Between late October and early November, residents filed 15 heat and hot water complaints alongside 10 cooking gas complaints. The reports indicate a systemic building-wide outage that coincided with inspectors finding the boiler room locked.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• The property was transferred on September 11, 2025, to an LLC for $4,360. A nominal price like that often indicates a referee or foreclosure sale, though the deed itself does not say so.
• Within three blocks, there were 244 residential noise complaints over the last year, with loud music and parties accounting for 208 of the calls.
• The same three blocks saw 86 illegal parking complaints, driven mostly by 37 blocked hydrant violations.

47 Harman Street is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3032750092). This building is associated with Harman 47 LLC. Brix tracks 19 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1920, 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 46 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: 26 complaints
• General: 13 complaints
• Appliance: 7 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed October 30, 2025.

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
• § 27-2044, 2041
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE PROPERLY REPAIR WITH SIMILAR MATERIAL THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE FIRE RETARDANT MATERIAL AT CEILING AT CELLAR
• § 27-2005, 2006, 2037 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR AND ABATE UNSAFE ELECTRIC WIRING CONDITION CONSISTING OF EXPOSED ELECTRICAL WIRES AT CEILING AT CELLAR

The building last changed hands on September 11, 2025 for $4,360, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Concerning (5/100). View the Building Report on Brix.

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