281 Union Avenue
Brooklyn · Williamsburg, NY 11211
Also listed by the City as 405 South 3rd Street
281 Union Avenue is a 33-apartment building in Williamsburg, built in 2013, managed by Plaza Management USA. The City has 1 open housing-code violation on file for it, about 0.03 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 8 complaints 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 Plaza Management USA
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- Units
- 33
- Year built
- 2013
- 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.
Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 3 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.
8tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 9 the year before
1open repair
Outstanding with HPD
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Hazardous
- 1
- Non-hazardous
- 0
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings1
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Plaza Management USA manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 86 apartments.
- open violations
- 49open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 13immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 30311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.6per apartment
in the past year
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.)
What tenants say
Nobody has written about 281 Union Avenue yet.
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