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490 East 23rd Street

A 6-story building with 40 apartments, built in 1931, in Brooklyn, NY 11226.

Addresses on the lot: 484 to 490 East 23rd Street.

HPD records as of November 6, 2026

32open HPD violations11 immediately hazardous
38complaints to HPD, past year36 about heat or hot water
40rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2023
Nonehousing court cases in 5 years7 older

490 East 23rd Street has 32 open HPD violations, 11 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 38 complaints to HPD in the past year, 36 about heat or hot water. It is registered to 490 EAST 23 LLC. 40 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023.

Does 490 East 23rd Street have open violations?

Yes: 32 open violations as of November 6, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most11
B, hazardous30 days18
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days3

It has an open class C violation, as 66% of NYC buildings with 20 to 49 apartments do. More on buildings by size

Of the violations HPD wrote here in the past year, 13 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 38 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to November 6, 2026, 36 of them about heat or hot water. Complaints reach HPD through 311; an inspector may then write a violation.

Among NYC buildings with 20 to 49 apartments, 69% had at least one complaint to HPD in the past year, and 53% had one about heat or hot water.

Who owns 490 East 23rd Street?

490 East 23rd Street is registered with HPD to 490 EAST 23 LLC. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

Housing court and evictions

None in the past five years. HPD’s record has 7 older cases, the latest from 2016.

City marshals carried out 1 eviction 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 490 East 23rd Street rent stabilized?

40 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023, the same as in 2018. That’s 40 of the building’s 40 apartments. 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 3-05222-0082.