Building health · BROOKLYN, NY

131 5 Ave

built 1920 · 4 stories · 8 apartments
Registered with the city: HORIZON REAL ESTATE PARTNERS CORP · 6 other buildings here list it; KAREN REALTY CORP; KAREN REALTY CORP.
Last sold Apr 2023 for $4,660,000 · NYC Department of Finance

Apartments named in these records

2 of this building’s 8 apartments are named in a city record. The rest have no record naming them, which is the usual case.

These are city records about an apartment, not about anyone who lives or lived there. They may not be used to screen a tenant.

Fire and safety

Issues on record

Electrical

Issues on record

Structure and facade

Issues on record

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 7 complaints, 2025 · 2 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas (Peerless 63-06), registration current since Apr 2026

Clean Air Tracking System (boiler registrations), as of 2026-10-21 · See this building's boiler registrations on NYC Open Data →
Boiler inspection filings

Latest accepted inspection Jan 2026, defects reported: no

DOB NOW: Safety Boiler, as of 2026-10-20 · See the boiler filings at DOB →
What this counts

Accepted annual boiler inspection filings, any date

Boiler work permits

Latest boiler work permit 2013

DOB Permit Issuance (BIS), as of 2026-10-20
What this counts

DOB boiler permits (BIS and DOB NOW); a permit dates work, not the boiler's age

Heat and hot water complaints

2 heat or hot water complaints

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-21 · See the complaints at HPD Online →
What this counts

HPD complaints, heat season 2025–26 (Oct 1–May 31)

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 2 complaints, 2025–2026

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 7 complaints, 2025–2026

Flooding

No issues on record
FEMA flood zone

Outside FEMA's 1% annual-chance flood zone: X

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of 2026-10-21
What this counts

Effective FIRM zones touching the building footprint

Stormwater flooding

Extreme storm, 2080 sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Moderate storm, 2050 sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Moderate storm, today's sea levels: Not in mapped flooding; Limited storm, today's sea levels: Not loaded (file format unreadable)

NYC Stormwater Flood Maps, as of 2024-07-03
What this counts

Mapped ponding touching the building footprint

  • Basementno recordUnknown

Rent and tenancy

On the state list
Rent stabilization

On the state's list of buildings with at least one rent-stabilized apartment (2024 registrations)

Rent Stabilized Building Lists (2024 HCR registrations), as of 2025-11-30
What this counts

The list doesn't say which apartments are stabilized, and being listed isn't proof of current status. For a specific apartment, request its rent history from HCR

Gas

Gas piping

Open violation for not filing the periodic gas piping inspection (2025)

DOB Safety Violations, as of 2026-10-20
What this counts

Paperwork violation: the filing is missing, which is not a finding about the pipes

General condition and all records

HPD violations

19 open: 19 about building conditions — other conditions (7), mold (5), walls, floors and stairs (3), fire safety (2); 1 immediately hazardous (class C). 20 further violations from 2025–2026 were closed. 53 violations on record in all, 1986–2026 — the 39 most recent are listed here

2026 Oct
LeaksApt 4R class B
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4R class B
2026 Oct
Other conditions class A
2026 Oct
Other conditions class B
2026 Oct
Other conditionsApt 4R class B
2026 Oct
MoldApt 4R class A
2026 Sep
Fire safety class B
2026 Sep
Walls, floors and stairs class B
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2026 Sep
Other conditions class B
2026 Sep
Other conditions class A
2026 Sep
MoldApt 4R class A
2026 Sep
ElectricalApt 4R class B
2026 Sep
MoldApt 4R class A
2026 Sep
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4R class A · closed
2026 Sep
Doors and windowsApt 4R class B · closed
2026 Sep
ElectricalApt 4R class A · closed
2026 Sep
Fire safetyApt 4R class B · closed
2026 Aug
Other conditions class B
2026 Aug
MoldApt 4R class A
2026 Aug
MoldApt 4R class A
2026 Aug
Other conditionsApt 4R class A
2026 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4R class B
2026 Aug
Doors and windowsApt 4R class B · closed
2026 Aug
ElectricalApt 4R class B · closed
2026 Aug
PlumbingApt 4R class B · closed
2025 Nov
Doors and windowsApt 3C class B · closed
2025 Oct
Fire safety class C · closed
2025 Sep
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2025 Sep
Fire safety class B · closed
2025 Aug
Fire safetyApt 4R class C
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairs class A · closed
2025 Aug
Fire safety class B · closed
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork · closed
2025 Aug
Heat or hot water class C · paperwork · closed
2025 Aug
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2025 Aug
PestsApt 4R class C · closed
2025 Aug
Fire safetyApt 4R class B · closed
2025 Aug
Heat or hot waterApt 4R class C · closed
2025 Feb
Fire safety class B · closed
Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-20 · Read these violations in full at HPD Online →
What this counts

Open HPD violations inspected in the last 10 years; class C = immediately hazardous. Paperwork = failure to file, notify or certify

Permit history

17 permits since 1990

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits, as of 2026-10-20 · See every permit at DOB →
What this counts

DOB permits issued (DOB NOW and legacy BIS), one per job and work type; excludes sheds

SalesWhole tax lot

Last sold Apr 2023 for $4,660,000; 1 apartment sale since 2016

NYC Citywide Annualized Calendar Sales, as of 2026-06-09
What this counts

Department of Finance sales files, 2016 on

Nothing on record

Energyno record
  • Energynot requiredNot required: energy reporting applies to buildings over 25,000 sq ft
ElevatorsNot applicable
  • Elevatorsnot requiredNo elevators registered to this building

Sources

24 datasets

Each date is when we last checked that dataset, not when the record itself was created.

Every row shows the record it came from and the date it was last checked.
These are city records, not an inspection by Blueflo. Every item shows its source and the date it was last checked.
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