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253 North 8th Street

Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211

253 North 8th Street is an 8-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 1900, managed by Apex Management Group. The City has 32 open housing-code violations on file for it, 19 of them immediately hazardous, about 4.0 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.

Managed by Apex Management Group

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Units
8
Year built
1900
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.

1.4/5Among the worst on record nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

32open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 4.0 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
19
Hazardous
6
Non-hazardous
7

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings13
  • Doors, windows and locks6
  • Heat or hot water6
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Electrical2
  • Other repairs1

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Apex Management Group manages 40 other buildings we cover, holding 519 apartments.

open violations
506open violations
immediately hazardous
184immediately hazardous
311 complaints
266311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.0per 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.)

What tenants say

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