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185 South 4th Street

Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211

185 South 4th Street is a 42-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 2005, managed by Canvas Property Group. The City has 8 open housing-code violations on file for it, 3 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.19 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 11 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 6 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 Canvas Property Group

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Units
42
Year built
2005
Neighborhood
Williamsburg
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.

3.1/5About average for the areaScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Complaints are down from 16 to 11 year on year.

11tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 16 the year before

Typically closed in 6 days · neighborhood median is 5

8open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
3
Hazardous
4
Non-hazardous
1

What the open repairs are about

  • Doors, windows and locks3
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Smoke and CO alarms2
  • Electrical1
  • Leaks, damp or mould1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Canvas Property Group manages 26 other buildings we cover, holding 811 apartments.

open violations
100open violations
immediately hazardous
18immediately hazardous
311 complaints
61311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.1per 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 5 October 2026.)

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