# 178 Kent Street, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3025590013/178-kent-street-brooklyn).
BBL 3025590013 · BIN 3064752 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 40 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 8 apartments
- 38 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 12 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 4 active DOB violation(s)
- Tax lien sold at the city's lien sale — a sign of financial distress
- $10,000 in unpaid OATH/ECB fines

Scale: low, moderate, high, severe. Set from open hazardous violations relative to building size, raised by distress signals (HPD's Alternative Enforcement Program, court harassment findings, evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, a sold tax lien). It describes the public record, not any one apartment.

## Rent stabilization

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 8 stabilized units for 2022, of about 8 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 8, 2019: 8, 2020: 8, 2021: 8, 2022: 8.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1928, 4 floors, 8 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

119 open (class C immediately hazardous: 40, class B hazardous: 49, class A non-hazardous: 29); 146 on record.
38 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
12 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

4 active (2 issued in the last 3 years); 7 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

2 active of 2 on record; 0 decided by default; $10,000 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

24 in the last 12 months; 40 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (28), PAINT/PLASTER (3), PLUMBING (3), ELECTRIC (2), WATER LEAK (1).

## Bedbugs

5 annual bedbug filings by the owner; latest reports 0 infested units.

## Evictions

0 executed in the last 3 years; 0 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

5 cases on record, 0 open, 5 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## City debt and tax-lien sale

The tax lien was sold at the city's lien sale in 2025.

## Landlord


## Sources and limits

NYC Open Data (HPD, DOB, OATH/ECB, 311, DOF, PLUTO) and NYS DHCR building lists. This is a screening signal from public records, not legal advice; records lag and contain errors. Full interactive report with violation details and maps: https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3025590013/178-kent-street-brooklyn