161 Sands Street
Brooklyn · Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, NY 11201
Also listed by the City as 165 Sands Street
161 Sands Street is a 120-apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, built in 1902, managed by Bethel Management INC. The City has 11 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.09 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Bethel Management INC
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- Units
- 120
- Year built
- 1902
- Neighborhood
- Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
- 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.
Complaints are down from 2 to 0 year on year.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before
11open repairs
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 1
- Hazardous
- 6
- Non-hazardous
- 4
What the open repairs are about
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Stairs, floors and ceilings3
- Smoke and CO alarms2
- Doors, windows and locks1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Bethel Management INC manages 17 other buildings we cover, holding 454 apartments.
- open violations
- 195open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 31immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 23311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.4per 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 5 October 2026.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 161 Sands Street yet.
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