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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 13 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.07 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 32 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 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 Breaking Ground Management

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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.

4.2/5Better 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 6-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 61 to 32 year on year.

32tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 61 the year before

13open repairs

Outstanding with HPD

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
2

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests3
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Rubbish and cleanliness1
  • Other repairs1

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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Breaking Ground Management manages 7 other buildings we cover, holding 1,511 apartments.

open violations
356open violations
immediately hazardous
115immediately hazardous
311 complaints
890311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per apartment

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 160 Schermerhorn Street yet.

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