# 637 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3035120009/637-howard-avenue-brooklyn).
BBL 3035120009 · BIN 3080888 · Generated 2026-10-24

## Concern level: high

- 3 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 8 apartments
- 3 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 1 eviction executed in the last 3 years

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

Not on the rent-stabilized lists (DOF tax-bill records, DHCR building list). Absence is not proof a unit is unregulated.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1920, 4 floors, 23 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

3 open (class C immediately hazardous: 3, class B hazardous: 0, class A non-hazardous: 0); 18 on record.
3 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

0 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 0 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

1 active of 2 on record; 0 decided by default; $0 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

22 in the last 12 months; 39 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (29), UNSANITARY CONDITION (2), PLUMBING (2), APPLIANCE (2), DOOR/WINDOW (1).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

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

## City debt and tax-lien sale

On a tax-lien sale list in 2020 (90-day notice).

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: COMMITTED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES
- Agent: ESSEX MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC
- HeadOfficer: MICHAEL WEISS
- SiteManager: RYLAND ANDERSON
- Officer: Kenneth Pagano

The same owner is linked to 6 other buildings (MICHAEL WEISS at 1091 GATES AVENUE).

## 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/3035120009/637-howard-avenue-brooklyn