# 1275 East 5 Street, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3054951014/1275-east-5-street-brooklyn).
BBL 3054951014 · BIN 3131067 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: high

- 9 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 13 apartments
- 8 of those issued in the last 3 years
- 4 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 28 active DOB 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

Likely rent-stabilized. The owner registered 6 stabilized units for 2023, of about 120 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 9, 2019: 8, 2020: 8, 2021: 7, 2022: 7, 2023: 6.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1952, 6 floors, 120 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

39 open (class C immediately hazardous: 9, class B hazardous: 27, class A non-hazardous: 3); 334 on record.
8 open class-C violations were issued in the last 3 years.
4 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

28 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 99 on record.

## OATH/ECB violations and fines

29 active of 55 on record; 0 decided by default; $3,750 balance due.

## 311 housing complaints

44 in the last 12 months; 216 on record.
Most common: PAINT/PLASTER (44), UNSANITARY CONDITION (42), HEAT/HOT WATER (41), WATER LEAK (37), PLUMBING (13).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

2 cases on record, 0 open, 2 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: PARKWAY APARTMENT CORP.
- Agent: SUPERIOR REALTY GROUP, LLC
- HeadOfficer: KEVIN GERSHENSON
- Officer: MARGARET LEBENSON
- SiteManager: SHAWN POWELL

The same owner is linked to 1 other building (KEVIN GERSHENSON at 1279 37 STREET).

## 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/3054951014/1275-east-5-street-brooklyn