540 Chauncey St — building record — Blueflo

Building record from city data · BROOKLYN, NY

Printed 2026-10-21 from blueflo.tech/b/540-chauncey-street-brooklyn, where it is kept current. These are city records, not an inspection by Blueflo. Every item shows its source and the date it was last checked. Not a warranty. May not be used for tenant screening (terms of use).

built 1910 · 3 stories · 6 apartments · BIN 3041182 · BBL 3015170016

Worth knowing

4 open immediately hazardous (class C) HPD violations about pests

Source: Housing Maintenance Code Violations · as of 2026-10-21

Worth knowing

4 open immediately hazardous (class C) HPD violations about pests
13 open HPD violations about building conditions

Clean in the records

Water service line on record as non-lead (records)
Outside FEMA's 1% annual-chance flood zone; no mapped stormwater flooding
No heat or hot water complaints filed last winter

Worth knowing

4 open immediately hazardous (class C) HPD violations about pests

Source: Housing Maintenance Code Violations · as of 2026-10-21

How often each problem is reported

2024 – 2026

Heat or hot water7 reports
2024Heat or hot water · Dec 2024 · 3 reports (5 complaints)Dec 4, 2024 Dec 14, 2024 Dec 19, 2024 Dec 20, 2024 Dec 26, 2024
2025Heat or hot water · Jan 2025 · 2 reports (4 complaints)Jan 9, 2025 Jan 15, 2025 Jan 20, 2025 Jan 23, 2025Heat or hot water · Feb 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Feb 1, 2025Heat or hot water · Mar 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Mar 4, 2025
2026
Leaks2 reports
2024
2025Leaks · Jan 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Jan 15, 2025Leaks · Apr 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Apr 16, 2025
2026

A filled month had a report to HPD; darker means more than one, and the past year is brightest. Tap one to read it. Complaints within a week count as one report. Records list complaints filed, not conditions found.

Apartments named in these records

Apt 1 8 Apt 2 23 Apt 5 11 Apt 6 5

4 of this building’s 6 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.

Heat and hot water

11 complaints, 2024–2025

What has happened here

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class B · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 6 complaint

Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · closed · HPD violation

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Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot water class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed · HPD violation

Heat or hot waterApt 2 complaint

Heat sourceno recordNo boiler registration or district steam on record
Boiler inspection filingsnot requiredNot required: residential buildings with 6 or fewer units are exempt from annual filings
Boiler work permitsno recordNo boiler work permits on record
Heat and hot water complaintsfound0 heat or hot water complaints

Water and pipes

Issues on record (2022) · 2 complaints, 2025

What has happened here

LeaksApt 2 class B · closed · HPD violation

Plumbing, leaksApt 2 complaint

LeaksApt 2 complaint

Leaks class A · HPD violation

Water service line

Non-Lead (records)

Lead Service Line Location Coordinates, as of 2026-01-30

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record, most recently 2025

What has happened here

Pests class A · paperwork · HPD violation

Pests class A · paperwork · closed · HPD violation

PestsApt 5 class C · HPD violation

Rubbish and cleanliness class B · closed · HPD violation

PestsApt 2 class C · closed · HPD violation

PestsApt 2 class C · closed · HPD violation

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MoldApt 5 class B · HPD violation

MoldApt 5 class B · HPD violation

PestsApt 5 class C · HPD violation

PestsApt 5 class C · HPD violation

MoldApt 5 class B · HPD violation

PestsApt 5 class C · HPD violation

MoldApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Fire and safety

Older records on file

What has happened here

Fire safetyApt 6 class B · HPD violation

Electrical

Older records on file

What has happened here

ElectricalApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Structure and facade

Issues on record, most recently 2022

What has happened here

Walls, floors and stairsApt 2 class B · closed · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairs class A · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class B · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class B · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class A · HPD violation

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Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class A · never closed · HPD violation

Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Facade ratingnot requiredNot required: facade inspections apply only to buildings taller than 6 stories
Sidewalk shed and scaffoldingno recordNo sidewalk shed permits on record
Landmark statusno recordNot in a historic district on record

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

Gas

What has happened here

PL-PER Gas Piping - LL152 DOB violation

Gas piping

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

DOB Safety Violations, as of 2026-10-21

What this counts

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

15 open: 13 about building conditions — pests (4), walls, floors and stairs (4), mold (3), fire safety (1); 4 immediately hazardous (class C), 2 about paperwork or notices. Also 8 older records from 2009–2015 never closed. 18 further violations from 2023–2025 were closed. 63 violations on record in all, 2009–2026 — the 41 most recent are listed here

Pests class A · paperwork

Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed

Pests class A · paperwork · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class B · closed

Walls, floors and stairsApt 2 class B · closed

LeaksApt 2 class B · closed

PestsApt 5 class C

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5 class B · closed

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Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5 class B · closed

Heat or hot water class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 5 class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed

Heat or hot water class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed

Rubbish and cleanliness class B · closed

PestsApt 2 class C · closed

PestsApt 2 class C · closed

Heat or hot waterApt 2 class C · closed

Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed

MoldApt 5 class B

MoldApt 5 class B

Walls, floors and stairs class A · paperwork

Walls, floors and stairs class A

PestsApt 5 class C

PestsApt 5 class C

MoldApt 5 class B

PestsApt 5 class C

Fire safetyApt 6 class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class B

Walls, floors and stairsApt 6 class A

MoldApt 1 class B · never closed

ElectricalApt 1 class B · never closed

Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class B · never closed

Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class A · never closed

Other conditionsApt 1 class A · never closed

Walls, floors and stairsApt 1 class B · never closed

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1 class B · never closed

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1 class B · never closed

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

1 open: 1 about filings or paperwork

PL-PER Gas Piping - LL152

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

Resident complaints to the city

11 heat or hot water, 2 leaks, 2 plumbing, 1 paint or plaster

Paint or plaster, plumbing, leaksApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 6

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot water, leaksApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

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Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

Heat or hot waterApt 2

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

What this counts

HPD complaints received in the last 2 years; the list below is every complaint on record for the last three years

Everything else on record

Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed · HPD violation

Paint or plasterApt 2 complaint

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5 class B · closed · HPD violation

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 5 class B · closed · HPD violation

Other conditions class I · paperwork · closed · HPD violation

Other conditionsApt 1 class A · never closed · HPD violation

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Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Smoke or CO detectorsApt 1 class B · never closed · HPD violation

Permit historyno record0 permits since 1990
Salesno recordNo recorded sale since 2016

Nothing on record

Rent and tenancyNot on the state list

Rent stabilizationno recordNot on the state's 2024 list. Owners who register late or not at all are missing, so ask HCR about a specific apartment

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

FEMA

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer2026-10-21
OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims (v3)2026-09-09

NYC DCP

NYC GeoSearch (address directory)2026-10-21
PLUTO (tax lot data)2026-08-24

NYC DEP

Clean Air Tracking System (boiler registrations)2026-10-21
Lead Service Line Location Coordinates2026-01-30

NYC DEP / Mayor's Office

NYC Stormwater Flood Maps2024-07-03

NYC DOB

DOB NOW Elevator Safety Compliance2026-10-21
DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits2026-10-21
DOB NOW: Safety Boiler2026-10-21
DOB NOW: Safety – Facades Compliance Filings2026-10-21
DOB Permit Issuance (BIS)2026-10-20
DOB Safety Violations2026-10-21
DOB Violations2026-10-21

NYC DOB / Mayor's Office

Energy and Water Data Disclosure (Local Law 84)2025-11-25

NYC DOF

NYC Citywide Annualized Calendar Sales2026-06-09

NYC HPD

Buildings Subject to HPD Jurisdiction2026-08-12
Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems2026-10-21
Housing Maintenance Code Violations2026-10-21
Multiple Dwelling Registrations2026-08-12
Registration Contacts2026-08-12

NYC OTI

AddressPoint2026-07-07
Building Footprints2026-10-19

NYC Rent Guidelines Board / NYS HCR

Rent Stabilized Building Lists (2024 HCR registrations)2025-11-30

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