185 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn · Clinton Hill, NY 11205
185 Clinton Avenue is a 520-apartment building in Clinton Hill, built in 1944, managed by Clinton Hill Apts. Owners CORP. The City has 249 open housing-code violations on file for it, 44 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.48 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 6 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 Clinton Hill Apts. Owners CORP.
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- Units
- 520
- Year built
- 1944
- Neighborhood
- Clinton 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 5 days from complaint to close, faster than the 6-day neighborhood median.
6tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 5 the year before
249open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 44
- Hazardous
- 128
- Non-hazardous
- 77
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings100
- Doors, windows and locks39
- Pests27
- Leaks, damp or mould21
- Other repairs18
- Smoke and CO alarms16
Housing Court
Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 3 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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
Clinton Hill Apts. Owners CORP manages 3 other buildings we cover, holding 597 apartments.
- open violations
- 389open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 40immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 68311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.7per 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 185 Clinton Avenue yet.
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