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279 Washington Avenue

Brooklyn · Clinton Hill, NY 11205

Also listed by the City as 277 Washington Avenue

279 Washington Avenue is a 66-apartment building in Clinton Hill, built in 1925, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 141 open housing-code violations on file for it, 7 of them immediately hazardous, about 2.1 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). One complaint was filed with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 3 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 Akam Associates, INC.

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Units
66
Year built
1925
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.

2.4/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 6-day neighborhood median.

Complaints are down from 36 to 1 year on year.

1tenant complaint

Filed with 311 in the past year · 36 the year before

141open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 2.1 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
7
Hazardous
77
Non-hazardous
57

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings71
  • Doors, windows and locks31
  • Leaks, damp or mould17
  • Smoke and CO alarms8
  • Other repairs5
  • Electrical5

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Akam Associates, INC manages 257 other buildings we cover, holding 34,956 apartments.

open violations
2,785open violations
immediately hazardous
344immediately hazardous
311 complaints
478311 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 28 September 2026.)

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