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652 Brooklyn Avenue

A 2-story building with 35 apartments, built in 1948, in Brooklyn, NY 11203.

Addresses on the lot: 652 to 668 Brooklyn Avenue, 416 to 444 Hawthorne Street.

HPD records as of November 5, 2026

255open HPD violations70 immediately hazardous
158complaints to HPD, past year47 about heat or hot water
35rent-stabilized apartmentsregistered in 2018
January 2026latest housing court case13 cases on record, all years

652 Brooklyn Avenue has 255 open HPD violations, 70 of them immediately hazardous. Tenants made 158 complaints to HPD in the past year, 47 about heat or hot water. It is registered to Homewood Gardens Estates LLC. 35 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2018.

Does 652 Brooklyn Avenue have open violations?

Yes: 255 open violations as of November 5, 2026. HPD sorts them by how soon the owner must fix them:

ClassDeadlineOpen
C, immediately hazardous24 hours for most70
B, hazardous30 days134
A, non-hazardousAbout 90 days51

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, 7 have been closed.

What do tenants complain about?

Tenants made 158 complaints to HPD in the 12 months to November 5, 2026, 47 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 652 Brooklyn Avenue?

652 Brooklyn Avenue is registered with HPD to Homewood Gardens Estates 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 January 2026. HPD’s record has 13 cases here in all, going back to the 1990s.

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

For comparison, 4% of residential buildings in 11203 had a housing court case in the past five years.

Is 652 Brooklyn Avenue rent stabilized?

35 apartments were registered as rent stabilized in 2018. That’s 35 of the building’s 35 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 5, 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 3-04820-0017.