# 178 Bay 23 Street, Brooklyn, NY

Public-record building report from Know Your Building (https://knowyourbuilding.nyc/building/3064400039/178-bay-23-street-brooklyn).
BBL 3064400039 · BIN 3168760 · Generated 2026-10-23

## Concern level: high

- 5 open class-C HPD violations (immediately hazardous) — about 1 per 5 apartments
- 1 open rent-impairing violation(s)
- 1 active DOB violation(s)

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 23 stabilized units for 2023, of about 23 apartments.
Registered units by year: 2018: 23, 2019: 23, 2020: 23, 2021: 23, 2022: 23, 2023: 23.
No public data says which specific apartment is stabilized; tenants can request their rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal.

## The building

built 1915, 4 floors, 23 residential units.

## HPD housing-maintenance violations

22 open (class C immediately hazardous: 5, class B hazardous: 12, class A non-hazardous: 5); 117 on record.
1 open violations are rent-impairing.

## DOB building violations

1 active (0 issued in the last 3 years); 2 on record.

## 311 housing complaints

3 in the last 12 months; 16 on record.
Most common: UNSANITARY CONDITION (5), HEAT/HOT WATER (4), WATER LEAK (4), PAINT/PLASTER (2), DOOR/WINDOW (1).

## Bedbugs

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

## Evictions

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

## Housing court (HPD litigation)

1 cases on record, 0 open, 1 tenant-initiated, 0 with a court finding of harassment.

## Landlord

- CorporateOwner: SHIMON REALTY INC
- Agent: JOE FALKOWITZ
- HeadOfficer: MIRIAM YAVO
- SiteManager: JOE FALKOWITZ

The same owner is linked to 35 other buildings (MIRIAM YAVO at 81 PULASKI 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/3064400039/178-bay-23-street-brooklyn