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279 South 1st Street

Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211

279 South 1st Street is a 22-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 1910, managed by Ashton Management CORP. The City has 9 open housing-code violations on file for it, one of them immediately hazardous, about 0.41 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 10 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 9 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 Ashton Management CORP

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Units
22
Year built
1910
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.

2.6/5About 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.

10tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 2 the year before

Typically closed in 9 days · neighborhood median is 5

9open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 0.4 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
1
Hazardous
8
Non-hazardous
0

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings3
  • Smoke and CO alarms3
  • Doors, windows and locks2
  • Pests1

Housing Court

Tenants took this building's owner to Housing Court 1 time 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 Cases are settled, withdrawn and dismissed, and most end without a judgment either way.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

Ashton Management CORP manages 26 other buildings we cover, holding 626 apartments.

open violations
138open violations
immediately hazardous
34immediately hazardous
311 complaints
141311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
0.2per 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

Nobody has written about 279 South 1st Street yet.

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