231 Ocean Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

BBL 3-05026-0350BIN 3114671Plain-text version

Concern level3 of 4

High

016 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 11 apartments
021 open rent-impairing violation(s)
039 active DOB violation(s)
041 eviction executed in the last 3 years

How this is set: open hazardous violations measured against the building's size, then raised by strong distress signals — HPD's enforcement program, court harassment findings, recent evictions, unpaid OATH/ECB fines, open housing-court cases, and a sold tax lien. Neighborhood noise and crime are not part of it. It describes the public record, not the condition of any one apartment, and a quiet record is not proof of a good building.

Rent regulation

Likely rent-stabilized

The owner registered 68 stabilized units with New York State for 2019 — essentially all of the building's 66 apartments.

2018 — 68 units registered2019 — 68

No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized.

Registration counts apply to the building, not to unit numbers. To confirm your own apartment, request your rent history from New York State Homes and Community Renewal — it is free and takes a few weeks.

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The building

1926

Built

Floors

Residential units

Elevator apartments

Type

This building and the landlord's others

This building12 others linked to the same owner

HPD housing-maintenance violations

Open now

248

On record

Open Class C

Open Class B

Open Class A

Class C is immediately hazardous, Class B is hazardous, Class A is non-hazardous. A violation stays open until HPD certifies the repair, so some open items may already be fixed. HPD writes a separate violation for each room or spot, so one inspection can produce several near-identical entries; those are grouped below by apartment and date.

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 6KIssued 2023-10-103 violations

§ 27-2043.1 HMC INSTALL THE MISSING OR REPAIR/REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE WINDOW GUARD(S) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE NEW YORK CITY HEALTH CODE SECTION 24 RCNY CHAPTER 12. WG TO INSTALL = 2, WG TO REPLACE = 0, WG TO REPAIR = 2 IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 6K, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION AT EAST · Notice issued, not yet certified
§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) WEST WALL IN THE 4th ROOM FROM EAST AT SOUTH LOCATED AT APT 6K, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION AT EAST · Certification Postponment Granted

1 more from the same inspection

§ 27-2056.6 ADM CODE - CORRECT THE LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD - PAINT THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR LEAD CONTENT AND THAT IS PEELING OR ON A DETERIORATED SUBSURFACE - USING WORK PRACTICES SET FORTH IN 28 RCNY §11-06(B)(2) 1st DOOR FRAME FROM EAST AT SOUTH WALL IN THE BATHROOM LOCATED AT APT 6K, 6th STORY, 2nd APARTMENT FROM EAST AT SOUTH , SECTION AT EAST · Certification Postponment Granted

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 5EIssued 2022-02-07

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF ROACHES IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 5E, 5th STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Landlord hasn't certified a fix

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 2FIssued 2022-01-28

HMC ADM CODE: § 27-2017.4 ABATE THE INFESTATION CONSISTING OF MICE IN THE ENTIRE APARTMENT LOCATED AT APT 2F, 2nd STORY, 1st APARTMENT FROM WEST AT NORTH , 1st SECTION FROM WEST AT NORTHWEST

Status: HPD couldn't get in to re-inspect

CLASS C · IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUSApt 3EIssued 2019-03-115+ YRS OLD

§ 27-2017.3 HMC: TRACE AND REPAIR THE SOURCE AND ABATE THE VISIBLE MOLD CONDITION... AND MILDEW AT WEST WALL AND WINDOW FRAME AT WEST WALL (APPROX 30 SQ FT) IN THE 4th ROOM FROM EAST AT NORTH LOCATED AT APT 3E, 3rd STORY, 4th APARTMENT FROM SOUTH AT WEST

Status: Defect letter issued

HPD housing-maintenance violations

311 complaints from tenants

112

All time

Last 12 months

Heat/Hot Water69

Plumbing22

Paint/Plaster7

Water Leak4

Electric3

Unsanitary Condition3

Door/Window3

General1

Heat/Hot WaterEntire Building2026-10-05 · closed

PlumbingWater Supply2026-06-14 · closed

Complaints record what a tenant reported, not a finding by the city. "Closed" often means the inspector could not gain access.

311 complaints from tenants

Neighborhood noise

Much higher than averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

1275

Noise reports · last 12 mo

106

≈ per month

% from neighbors

Residential770

Street/Sidewalk382

Commercial44

Vehicle41

Unspecified38

311 noise complaints within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year. Most reports here are about noise from inside buildings — neighbors, not the street. This counts how often people call 311, which tracks how densely populated and busy an area is as much as how loud it is — it is not a sound measurement.

Neighborhood noise

Neighborhood crime

About averagevs. NYC apartment blocks

260

NYPD reports · last 12 mo

≈ per month

Felony74

Misdemeanor138

Violation48

NYPD complaints reported within about 1,000 ft (a few blocks) in the last year, by severity. This reflects what gets reported and where police are active as much as actual safety, and busier, denser, higher-foot-traffic blocks log more. Locations are approximate — the NYPD shifts each report to the nearest corner for privacy — so read this as rough context, not a safety score.

Neighborhood crime

Bedbug history

Infested, latest filing

Annual filings

2024–20251 infested · 1 eradicated

2023–20240 infested · 0 eradicated

2022–20230 infested · 0 eradicated

Self-reported by the owner for the year ending each filing. Counts are building-wide and do not say which apartment was affected.

Bedbug history

DOB building violations

Active

On record

Active, last 3 yrs

Violations issued by the Department of Buildings that the owner must correct. Most don't carry a fine on their own; summonses that go to a hearing and can be fined are listed separately under OATH/ECB.

ACTIVE · EGRADE-FAILURE TO POST ENERGY GRADE/SCORE NONE2024-12-01

FAILURE TO DISPLAY ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCORE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRADE AS PER ADCODE SEC. 28-309.12.3

ACTIVE · E-ELEVATOR ELEVATORREQUIRED2020-04-08

DOB building violations

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Balance due (active)

Active violations

Lost by default

These are separate from DOB violations. They are summonses written by DOB inspectors and decided at a hearing before OATH, the city's administrative court (formerly the Environmental Control Board), and they can carry a fine. "Lost by default" means the owner never appeared at the hearing. An unpaid balance is a stronger "ignoring the city" signal than a raw violation count.

ConstructionClass 32009-11-13$500 penalty

OATH/ECB violations and fines

Evictions

Executed, all time

Last 3 years

2024-03-20Apt 4Fresidential

Executed by a city marshal. An eviction can be lawful; a high or rising count is a displacement signal, not proof of wrongdoing.

Evictions

Housing court: repair & harassment cases

Cases on record

Open now

Tenant-brought

Harassment found

With a judgment

Most cases are tenants taking the owner to court to force repairs. A case is not proof of wrongdoing; a harassment finding or judgment is a court ruling against the owner.

CLOSEDOpened 2013-01-24

Heat / hot water

CLOSEDOpened 2011-11-21

Access Warrant - Non-Lead

These are cases HPD is a party to, mostly tenants suing to force repairs or stop harassment. Eviction cases landlords file against tenants are not in the city's open data, so they don't appear here; the Evictions section shows only evictions a marshal carried out.

Housing court

Landlord and related buildings

Registered owner

OCEAN 152 LLC

Head officer

MARGARETA MILLER

Managing agent

MARGARETA MILLER

12 other buildings share this owner's registration contacts. Shared contacts suggest common control, but they are not proof of ownership.

100 WOODRUFF AVENUEBROOKLYN 135 OCEAN AVENUEBROOKLYN 15 HAWTHORNE STREETBROOKLYN 150 OCEAN AVENUEBROOKLYN 18 WOODRUFF AVENUEBROOKLYN

Landlord and related buildings

Ownership & money

Recorded sales

Mortgages / refinances

Last recorded sale2006-03-06 · $6,127,842

Most recent mortgage2020-08-05 · $1,681,175.94

Mortgage2020-08-05$1,681,175.94

borrower OCEAN152 LLC · lender NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK, NEW YORK COMMERCIAL BANK

Mortgage2015-08-21$2,664,617.99

borrower OCEAN152 LLC · lender NEW YORK COMMERCIAL BANK

Mortgage2013-04-11$876,301.15

borrower OCEAN152 LLC · lender NEW YOTK COMMERCIAL BANK

Mortgage2011-04-04$1,274,735.6

borrower OCEAN152 LLC · lender NEW YORK COMMERCIAL BANK

Sale2006-03-06$6,127,842

231 OCEAN ASSOCIATES → OCEAN152 LLC

From ACRIS recorded documents. Amounts are often $0 or nominal for transfers between related parties, and LLCs can obscure who is really involved — treat this as public-record context, not a valuation.

Ownership & money

City debt & tax-lien sale

Not on the city's tax-lien sale list (2019–2025). The owner has not fallen far enough behind on property tax or water charges to be flagged for a lien sale.