1212 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn

Midwood prewar co-op carrying top-floor water leak violations, recurring winter heat calls, and indoor air quality reports nearby.

A 1925 mid-rise co-op with 48 units on Ocean Avenue in Midwood. While the building generally maintains a low public footprint, active roof-leak violations on the top floor and winter heat calls point to ongoing building-systems management. Three things to know:

Top-floor water leaks drove three open Class B code violations in late 2025. Three open Class B violations hit the building on December 24, 2025, all centered on apartment 6D on the top floor. The citations order repairs for a roof leak causing ceiling damage, defective plaster, and a water leak at an east wall window. Roof leaks on a top-floor unit of a 1925 structure can signal broader envelope maintenance needs.

Five heat and hot water complaints clustered over the 2025–2026 winter season. Five heat and hot water complaints were logged between December 2025 and March 2026. While four targeted individual units and one covered the whole building in January 2026, a repeated cold-weather cluster points to uneven heating distribution or boiler reliability issues during severe cold snaps.

Indoor air quality calls within three blocks highlight potential ventilation and riser issues. Three indoor air quality calls were logged within three blocks over the last 12 months, with the most recent surfacing in January 2026. Air quality and odor issues often point to HVAC or riser bleed, making floor level and proximity to ventilation shafts essential details to clarify during a walkthrough.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 136 residential noise complaints within three blocks over the last year, led by 71 reports of banging and pounding
• 117 unsanitary condition calls in the three-block radius, mostly concerning pests and mold
• 75 illegal parking reports within three blocks, primarily posted sign violations and blocked hydrants

1212 Ocean Avenue is a 48-unit building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3066940046). This building is associated with 1212 Ocean Avenue, LLC. Brix tracks 3 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1925, 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 22 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: 14 complaints
• Water Leak: 3 complaints
• Unsanitary Condition: 3 complaints
• Electric: 2 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed August 10, 2026.

Conditions cited on open violations at this address:

• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE ROOF SO THAT IT WILL NOT LEAK OVER CEILING IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST AT SOUTH LOCATED AT APT 6D, 6th STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM NOR
• § 27-2005 ADM CODE REPAIR THE BROKEN OR DEFECTIVE PLASTERED SURFACES AND PAINT IN A UNIFORM COLOR THE SOUTH EAST AND WEST WALLS IN THE 1st ROOM FROM EAST AT SOU
• § 27-2026, 2027 HMC: PROPERLY REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE EVIDENCE OF A WATER LEAK AT WINDOW AT EAST WALL IN THE 1st ROOM FROM NORTH AT EAST LOCATED AT APT

The building last changed hands on January 12, 2026, according to recorded deeds.

Brix score: 62/100. View the Building Report on Brix.

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