159 Boerum Street
Brooklyn · East Williamsburg, NY 11206
Also listed by the City as Johnson Avenue
159 Boerum Street is a 162-apartment building in East Williamsburg, built in 2023, managed by MGT Property Management. The City has 8 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.05 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 23 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 5 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 MGT Property Management
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- Units
- 162
- Year built
- 2023
- Neighborhood
- East 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 5 days from complaint to close, faster than the 6-day neighborhood median.
23tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
8open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 1
- Hazardous
- 1
- Non-hazardous
- 6
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings4
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Pests1
- Plumbing1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
MGT Property Management manages 5 other buildings we cover, holding 310 apartments.
- open violations
- 45open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 15immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 35311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per 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 159 Boerum Street yet.
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