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165 East 19th Street

A 6-story building with 107 apartments, built in 1941, in Brooklyn, NY 11226.

Addresses on the lot: 151 to 183 East 19th Street.

HPD records as of November 6, 2026

92open HPD violations28 immediately hazardous
18complaints to HPD, past year1 about heat or hot water
108rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2023
September 2026latest housing court case28 cases on record, all years

165 East 19th Street has 92 open HPD violations, 28 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 18 complaints to HPD in the past year, 1 about heat or hot water. It is registered to 165 East 19th Street Owner LLC. 108 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023.

Does 165 East 19th Street have open violations?

Yes: 92 open violations as of November 6, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most28
B, hazardous30 days31
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days33

It has an open class C violation, as 56% of NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments do. More on buildings by size

Of the violations HPD wrote here in the past year, 4 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 18 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to November 6, 2026, 1 of them about heat or hot water. Complaints reach HPD through 311; an inspector may then write a violation.

Among NYC buildings with 100 or more apartments, 72% had at least one complaint to HPD in the past year, and 57% had one about heat or hot water.

Who owns 165 East 19th Street?

165 East 19th Street is registered with HPD to 165 East 19th Street Owner LLC. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in September 2026. HPD’s record has 28 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

The building is in HPD’s Alternative Enforcement Program, which takes on the city’s worst-maintained buildings.

It is on the city’s Speculation Watch List: rent-regulated buildings sold at prices that suggest the buyer plans to push rents up.

City marshals carried out no evictions here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 12% of residential buildings in 11226 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 165 East 19th Street rent stabilized?

108 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023, up from 107 in 2018. Whether one apartment is stabilized is in its rent history, which the tenant can ask the state for.

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of November 6, 2026; evictions and rent-stabilized counts as of May 30, 2026; size and age from the city’s PLUTO. All from NYC Open Data. Public records, not legal advice. Tax lot 3-05123-0051.