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588 Gates Avenue

A 6-story building with 150 apartments, built in 1973, in Brooklyn, NY 11221.

Addresses on the lot: 588 to 598 Gates Avenue, 600 Gates Avenue, 602 to 620 Gates Avenue, 622 to 632 Gates Avenue.

HPD records as of October 24, 2026

61open HPD violations19 immediately hazardous
43complaints to HPD, past year11 about heat or hot water
140rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2023
January 2023latest housing court case20 cases on record, all years

588 Gates Avenue has 61 open HPD violations, 19 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 43 complaints to HPD in the past year, 11 about heat or hot water. It is registered to 745 GATES, L.P. 140 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023.

Does 588 Gates Avenue have open violations?

Yes: 61 open violations as of October 24, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most19
B, hazardous30 days37
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days5

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, 17 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 43 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to October 24, 2026, 11 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 588 Gates Avenue?

588 Gates Avenue is registered with HPD to 745 GATES, L.P. The registration also names a head officer and a managing agent, the people HPD contacts about the building.

5 other buildings are registered to the same company name, with 0 open violations between them.

Housing court and evictions

The latest housing court case over conditions or harassment opened in January 2023. HPD’s record has 20 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

City marshals carried out 10 evictions here in the five years to May 30, 2026.

For comparison, 5% of residential buildings in 11221 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 588 Gates Avenue rent stabilized?

140 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2023, the same as in 2018. That’s 140 of the building’s 150 apartments. Whether one apartment is stabilized is in its rent history, which the tenant can ask the state for.

Scores out of ten, from today’s records

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HPD violations, complaints, registrations and housing court cases as of October 24, 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 3-01816-0001.