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420 Clinton Avenue

Brooklyn · Clinton Hill, NY 11238

Also listed by the City as 419 Vanderbilt Avenue

420 Clinton Avenue is a 49-apartment building in Clinton Hill, built in 1930, managed by Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management. The City has 82 open housing-code violations on file for it, 41 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.7 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 29 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.

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Units
49
Year built
1930
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.

1.6/5Among 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.

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

29tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 40 the year before

82open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.7 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
41
Hazardous
33
Non-hazardous
8

What the open repairs are about

  • Stairs, floors and ceilings26
  • Pests23
  • Doors, windows and locks13
  • Leaks, damp or mould10
  • Other repairs8
  • Electrical4

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

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Nieuw Amsterdam Property Management manages 72 other buildings we cover, holding 1,083 apartments.

open violations
1,063open violations
immediately hazardous
316immediately hazardous
311 complaints
1,456311 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 28 September 2026.)

What tenants say

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