Building health · BROOKLYN, NY

1656 St Johns Pl

built 1905 · 5 stories · 18 apartments
Registered with the city: 1656 ST JOHNS PLACE LLC
Last sold Jun 2016 for $3,300,000 · NYC Department of Finance

Apartments named in these records

8 of this building’s 18 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.

Structure and facade

Issues on record

Heat and hot water

Issues on record (2023) · 4 complaints, 2024–2026 · 1 in the past year
Heat source

Boiler burning natural gas ((1) New H.B Smith 18-S-12 (1) NEW H.B SMITH 18-S-12), registration expired since Feb 1991

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 Jun 2025, defects reported: no

DOB NOW: Safety Boiler, as of 2026-10-21 · See the boiler filings at DOB →
What this counts

Accepted annual boiler inspection filings, any date

Boiler work permits

Latest boiler work permit 1991

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

1 heat or hot water complaint

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 · 3 complaints, 2025–2026 · 2 in the past year

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record (2024) · 3 complaints, 2025

Fire and safety

Issues on record, most recently 2025

Electrical

Older records on file

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

BasementWhole tax lot

Below grade

PLUTO (tax lot data), as of 2026-08-24

Rent and tenancy

On the state list
Rent stabilizationWhole tax lot

On the state's list of buildings with at least one rent-stabilized apartment (2024 registrations); listed for this tax lot (1 addresses), not under this building's address

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

18 open: 18 about building conditions — walls, floors and stairs (5), doors and windows (4), fire safety (4), smoke or CO detectors (2); 2 immediately hazardous (class C). 22 further violations from 2023–2026 were closed. 444 violations on record in all, 1992–2026 — the 40 most recent are listed here

2026 Oct
Other conditions class B
2026 Oct
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 4A class B
2026 Oct
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 4A class B
2026 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4A class C
2026 Oct
LeaksApt 4A class B
2026 May
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2026 Feb
Other conditions class A · closed
2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4D class B
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2025 Aug
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4D class B
2025 Aug
Fire safetyApt 4D class B
2025 Jun
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2025 Jan
MoldApt 3A class B · closed
2025 Jan
Heat or hot waterApt 3A class C · closed
2024 Dec
Heat or hot water class C · closed
2024 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4A class C · closed
2024 Dec
Heat or hot waterApt 4A class C · closed
2024 Nov
Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed
2024 Apr
Pests class A · paperwork · closed
2024 Mar
MoldApt 4C class B
2024 Mar
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4C class B · closed
2024 Mar
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4C class B · closed
2024 Mar
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4C class B · closed
2024 Mar
LeaksApt 4C class B · closed
2024 Feb
ElectricalApt 1B class B · closed
2024 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1B class B · closed
2024 Feb
Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1B class B · closed
2023 Dec
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4C class B · closed
2023 Dec
LeaksApt 4C class B · closed
2023 Dec
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4C class A · closed
2023 Dec
ElectricalApt 1B class B · closed
2023 Dec
MoldApt 4C class A · closed
2019 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 4D class B
2019 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 4D class B
2019 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4D class B
2019 Oct
Doors and windowsApt 4D class B
2019 Oct
Walls, floors and stairsApt 4D class B
2019 Jan
Fire safetyApt 4D class B
2018 Aug
Doors and windowsApt 4D class C
2018 Jul
Fire safetyApt 4D class B
2018 Apr
Fire safetyApt 4D class B
Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-21 · 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

DOB violations

2 open: 1 about building conditions, 1 about filings or paperwork

DOB Violations, as of 2026-10-21 · Read these violations in full at DOB →
What this counts

Open DOB, ECB and DOB NOW Safety violations, any date, one per violation. ECB class 1 = hazardous, class 2 = major

Permit history

5 permits since 1990

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits, as of 2026-10-21 · 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 Jun 2016 for $3,300,000

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

Department of Finance sales files, 2016 on

Nothing on record

Gasno record
  • Gas pipingno recordNo open gas piping filing violations. Inspection results themselves are not published
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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