2656 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn

Heads up — this three-unit house carries significant unresolved maintenance paper.

A 1930 three-family frame home in East New York with an active paper trail. While small residential properties usually generate sparse records, this file carries dozens of active housing violations and ongoing tenant complaints. Two things to know:

Active hazardous citations and pest violations sit on the open record. The city file lists 35 open violations, including 6 immediately hazardous citations. Recent inspection records from early 2025 document active roach and mouse infestations alongside defective flooring and plasterwork in Apartment 4.

Ongoing calls for leaks, heat, and basic repairs. Tenants have repeatedly called in complaints covering unsanitary conditions, leaks, plaster damage, and heat loss through early 2026. This isn't historical buildup — calls and violations continue to pile up across all three units.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• Curb space is heavily contested: 279 illegal parking complaints within three blocks last year, mostly blocked hydrants.
• 175 blocked driveway calls recorded within three blocks over the trailing 12 months.
• 64 residential noise calls within three blocks over the last year, largely loud music and parties.

2656 Pitkin Avenue is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3042300014). This building is associated with Yd Pitkin LLC. Brix tracks 32 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1930, 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 96 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:

• Unsanitary Condition: 26 complaints
• Heat/hot Water: 15 complaints
• Paint/plaster: 14 complaints
• Door/window: 14 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed May 15, 2026.

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
• § 27-2017
• § 27-2026 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE CONNECTION AT WASTE LINE AT WASHBASIN IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 4, 3rd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR AT THE IN THE 5th ROOM FROM NORTH LOCATED AT APT 4, 3rd STORY,

The building last changed hands on December 21, 2021, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 2/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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