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160 Schermerhorn Street

Brooklyn · Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, NY 11201

160 Schermerhorn Street is a 190-apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, built in 2007, managed by Breaking Ground Management. The City has 23 open housing-code violations on file for it, 12 of them immediately hazardous — about 0.12 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 27 August 2026). Tenants filed 25 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 days (311, as of 27 August 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet — everything above comes from the City's own records.

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The City’s record below shows what inspectors found. It can’t tell anyone whether the heat actually works, how long the super takes, or whether management picks up the phone. Only someone who lived here can.

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Units
190
Year built
2007
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.

3.8/5Better than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating — nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly — a median of 4 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 64 to 25 year on year.

25tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 64 the year before

23open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
12
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
3

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests12
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings5
  • Rubbish and cleanliness4
  • Electrical1
  • Other repairs1

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Aug 2026

What tenants say

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