165 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn · Fort Greene, NY 11238
165 Lafayette Avenue is a 2-apartment building in Fort Greene, built in 1860. The City has 16 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 8.0 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.
The City has no management company registered for this building. That is normal for a small house, which only has to register if the owner does not live there.
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- Units
- 2
- Year built
- 1860
- Neighborhood
- Fort Greene
- 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.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
16open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 8.0 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 3
- Hazardous
- 13
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Leaks, damp or mould5
- Stairs, floors and ceilings5
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Pests1
- Electrical1
- Other repairs1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 165 Lafayette Avenue yet.
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