# 297 Rear Essex Street, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3039720001/297-rear-essex-street-brooklyn).
BBL 3039720001 · BIN 3327119 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: severe

- 11 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) across 12 apartments
- 11 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 4 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 4 evictions 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 1930, 4 floors, 12 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

32 open (class C immediately hazardous: 11, class B hazardous: 20, class A non-hazardous: 0); 42 on record.
11 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
4 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

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

## 311 housing complaints

18 in the last 12 months; 48 on record.
Most common: HEAT/HOT WATER (24), UNSANITARY CONDITION (10), DOOR/WINDOW (4), ELECTRIC (3), PLUMBING (3).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

4 executed in the last 3 years; 4 on record.

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

3 cases on record, 0 open, 3 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## City debt and tax-lien sale

On a tax-lien sale list in 2019 (90-day notice), water/sewer debt only.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: 291 ESSEX ST LLC
- HeadOfficer: ISAAC SCHWARTZ
- SiteManager: STEVEN VASSALL
- Agent: HOUSING PLUS SOLUTIONS
- Lessee: HOUSING PLUS SOLUTIONS

The same owner is linked to 8 other buildings (ISAAC SCHWARTZ at 744 CONEY ISLAND 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/3039720001/297-rear-essex-street-brooklyn