56 Webster Avenue, Brooklyn

Low-density Brooklyn condo with a thin operational footprint, but open administrative violations and heavy parking friction right outside.

Small 2007 Brooklyn condo where the building's own operational activity is light, but paperwork maintenance and street parking drive the local record. Ownership is decentralized among individual unit owners, but administrative upkeep has stalled. Three things to know:

Administrative filings have lapsed repeatedly. The building carries eight open violations, split between missing annual property registrations and unfiled bedbug reports dating back to 2022. While these are administrative rather than structural or physical hazards, unfiled registrations limit the board's legal standing to clear violations or certify corrections.

Curb competition is the primary neighborhood friction. Parking friction is intense within three blocks, with 471 calls logged in the last year. The complaints center on posted sign violations, blocked sidewalks, and blocked hydrants rather than abandoned vehicles, reflecting tight curb competition and routine parking enforcement around the block.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 6 illegal parking calls logged directly at this address over the last year, mostly sign violations.
• 81 unpermitted construction calls within three blocks in the last 12 months, mostly unpermitted work.
• 18 rodent calls logged within three blocks over the past year.

56 Webster Avenue is a 3-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3054407501). This building is associated with Guttman, Joel. Brix tracks 8 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 2007, this condominium sits in Brooklyn and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

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
• §27-2107 ADM CODE OWNER FAILED TO FILE A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT AS REQUIRED BY ADM CODE §27-2097 AND IS THEREFORE SUBJECT TO CIVIL PEN

The building last changed hands on December 10, 2019 for $875,000, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 42/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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