Building record from city data · BROOKLYN, NY

686 Halsey St

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built 1910 · 4 stories · 5 apartments · BIN 3046585 · BBL 3016670043

Worth knowing
17 open immediately hazardous (class C) HPD violations about fire safety and heat or hot water and pests and electrical
Source: Housing Maintenance Code Violations · as of 2026-10-19
Worth knowing
Also on record
Clean in the records
Registered with the city

424 BROOKLYN REALTY CORP, 424 BROOKLYN REALTY C

Heat or hot water: 8 reports to the city since 2024
2024
2025Heat or hot water · Mar 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Mar 24, 2025Heat or hot water · Jul 2025 · 1 report (1 complaint)Jul 10, 2025Heat or hot water · Oct 2025 · 2 reports (5 complaints)Oct 10, 2025Oct 16, 2025Oct 20, 2025Oct 25, 2025Oct 27, 2025Heat or hot water · Nov 2025 · 3 reports (4 complaints)Nov 5, 2025Nov 20, 2025Nov 28, 2025Dec 2, 2025Heat or hot water · Dec 2025 · 1 report (2 complaints)Dec 10, 2025Dec 13, 2025
2026
Source: HPD Complaints and Problems · as of 2026-10-21

Also reported

2024 – 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

City records name 6 apartment labels, more than the 5 apartments the city lists for this building, so some are likely the same apartment written differently.

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

Structure and facade

Issues on record

Flooding

Issues on record
FEMA flood zone

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

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of 2026-10-20
What this counts

Effective FIRM zones touching the building footprint

Stormwater flooding

Extreme storm, 2080 sea levels: Nuisance flooding (4 in. to 1 ft); 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

Heat and hot water

Issues on record · 13 complaints, 2025 · 8 in the past year
Heat and hot water complaints

11 heat or hot water complaints

Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems, as of 2026-10-20 · See the complaints at HPD Online →
What this counts

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

  • 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

Water and pipes

Issues on record · 3 complaints, 2025–2026

Pests and cleanliness

Issues on record · 2 complaints, 2025–2026 · 1 in the past year

Electrical

Issues on record · 3 complaints, 2025–2026

Gas

Gas piping

Open violation for not filing the periodic gas piping inspection (2026)

DOB Safety Violations, as of 2026-10-19
What this counts

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

General condition and all records

HPD violations

53 open: 47 about building conditions — fire safety (11), walls, floors and stairs (9), smoke or CO detectors (8), heat or hot water (6); 17 immediately hazardous (class C), 6 about paperwork or notices. Also 9 older records from 1997–2015 never closed. 3 further violations from 2023–2025 were closed. 235 violations on record in all, 1997–2026 — the 65 most recent are listed here

Housing Maintenance Code Violations, as of 2026-10-19 · 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 filings or paperwork, 1 older than 10 years

DOB Violations, as of 2026-10-19 · 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

4 permits since 1990

DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits, as of 2026-10-19 · See every permit at DOB →
What this counts

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

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
Rent and tenancyNot applicable
  • Rent stabilizationnot requiredNot on the state's list. Rent stabilization generally applies to buildings with 6 or more apartments

Sources

23 datasets

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