11 New Montrose Avenue
Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211
Also listed by the City as 446 South 5th Street
11 New Montrose Avenue is a 35-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 1915, managed by People's Firehouse, INC. The City has 53 open housing-code violations on file for it, 36 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.5 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 15 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 2 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by People's Firehouse, INC.
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- Units
- 35
- Year built
- 1915
- Neighborhood
- Williamsburg
- Borough
- Brooklyn
This building’s record with the City
Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 2 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.
Complaints are down from 55 to 15 year on year.
15tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 55 the year before
53open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 1.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 36
- Hazardous
- 12
- Non-hazardous
- 5
What the open repairs are about
- Pests25
- Doors, windows and locks8
- Stairs, floors and ceilings7
- Leaks, damp or mould6
- Other repairs3
- Smoke and CO alarms2
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 2 times since October 2023.
A case is a filing, not a finding. Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
People's Firehouse, INC manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 76 apartments.
- open violations
- 48open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 11immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 2311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.6per apartment
in the past year
The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 11 New Montrose Avenue yet.
Does the heat hold in January? How long does the super take? Does management answer the phone, and were you charged what you expected? No public record answers any of that. Only someone who lived here can.
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