256 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn · Clinton Hill, NY 11238
256 Lafayette Avenue is a 4-apartment building in Clinton Hill, built in 1867. The City has 30 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 7.5 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The City has this building registered to a person rather than a company, and we do not publish individual names.
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- Units
- 4
- Year built
- 1867
- 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.
0tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year
30open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 7.5 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 9
- Non-hazardous
- 21
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings17
- Doors, windows and locks3
- Heat or hot water2
- Other repairs2
- Paint and plaster1
- Leaks, damp or mould1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 256 Lafayette Avenue yet.
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