Tenants here have called the city about heat/hot water 25 times over the last five years — the dominant complaint on this building's record.
163 Ocean Avenue is a 85-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3050260011). This building is associated with 163 Ocean Tenants Corp. Brix tracks 10 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.
Built in 1930, this elevator apartment building sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.
Tenants have filed 25 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 December 23, 2025.
Conditions cited on open violations at this address:
The building last changed hands on October 16, 2025 for $1,645,000, according to recorded deeds.
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Unit M6 at 163 Ocean Avenue has 6 open violations.
Unit 2A at 163 Ocean Avenue has 2 open violations.
Unit 1N at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2025 for $1.6M. Owner on the latest deed: Taylor, Timothy & Tane, Nora.
Unit 6G at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2025 for $1.4M. Owner on the latest deed: Malstrom, Alec & Trouba, Rachel.
Unit 5L at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2025 for $875K. Owner on the latest deed: Vu, Shannon & Vu, Kathleen.
Unit A6 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2024 for $293K. Owner on the latest deed: Sherman, Rachel.
Unit N4 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2023 for $1.5M. Owner on the latest deed: Martin, Trevor & O'Neill, Eileen.
Unit O3 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2023 for $1.1M. Owner on the latest deed: Karmazin, Eugene.
Unit 5C at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2023 for $780K. Owner on the latest deed: Worthman, Jennifer.
Unit B1 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2023 for $1.3M. Owner on the latest deed: Pokorny, Charles & Emerson, Sarah.
Unit 2G at 163 Ocean Avenue has no open violations (1 past violation), last sold in 2022 for $1.3M. Owner on the latest deed: Flanagan, Patrick & Stephan, Alexander.
Unit K6 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2022 for $585K. Owner on the latest deed: Phillips, Andrew.
Unit A1 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2021 for $980K. Owner on the latest deed: Oktay, Alp & Luostarinen, Katja.
Unit 2F at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2021 for $695K. Owner on the latest deed: Robinson, Antoine & Kang, Na Young.
Unit 5F at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2021 for $720K. Owner on the latest deed: Rhee, Victoria.
Unit 6B at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2021 for $1.4M. Owner on the latest deed: Arcenas-Abrenica, Anna & Abrenica, Joseph.
Unit 60 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2020 for $885K. Owner on the latest deed: Sekmen, Yakup & Dennett, Alexandra.
Unit 1L at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2020 for $570K. Owner on the latest deed: Cohen, Andrea & Zhang, Ying.
Unit 5K at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2020 for $701K. Owner on the latest deed: Agreen, Marcy & Schotter, Geoffrey.
Unit B2 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2019 for $1.3M. Owner on the latest deed: Cortez, Emily & Cortez, Oscar.
Unit O-1 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2008 for $150K. Owner on the latest deed: Fiorentino, Rocco & Fiorentino, Clementine +1 more.
Unit C5 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations. Owner on the latest deed: Joshua Glick, As Trustee & Harvey Glick Trust of 2017.
Unit 5G at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, 2 permits filed ($13K, latest 2017).
Unit 5H at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, 1 permit filed ($7K, latest 2017).
Unit L5 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2015 for $510K. Owner on the latest deed: Lambert, Seth & Kantor, Dina.
Unit D6 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2015 for $526K. Owner on the latest deed: Gottlieb, Perri.
Unit A4 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2014 for $815K. Owner on the latest deed: Kapell, Joshua.
Unit J1 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2014 for $275K. Owner on the latest deed: Gardner, Rachael.
Unit O4 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2014 for $591K. Owner on the latest deed: Karmaker & Karmaker Sons LLC.
Unit N6 at 163 Ocean Avenue has no violations, last sold in 2013 for $967K. Owner on the latest deed: Posner, Emily & Schoolman, John.
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