291 Patchen Avenue, Brooklyn

A 1980 elevator apartment building on Patchen Avenue with 30 open violations on record across city enforcement files.

291 Patchen Avenue is an elevator apartment building in Brooklyn, New York City (BBL 3016880001). The property is zoned R5, on a 747,200 sq ft lot, with 7 floors and 896 residential units. It was built in 1980. The lot is not inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area. NYC municipal records show 30 open building violations for this lot as of 2026-07-05.

Property facts

BBL	3016880001
Borough	Brooklyn — Community District 3
Neighborhood	Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Zoning district	R5
Building class	D3 — elevator apartment building (what’s a building class?)
Land use	03 — Multi-family elevator buildings
Lot area	747,200 sq ft
Floors	7
Residential units	896
Year built	1980
FAR	1.17 built · 1.5 max residential · 0 max commercial Learn: What is FAR?
Flood zone	Not in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area

Public records

18 open Department of Buildings violations
12 open ECB (OATH) violations
0 open Housing Preservation & Development violations
Façade safety filing status: UNSAFE (latest filing 2025-01-09)

Violation counts as of 2026-07-05.

Absence of a record means none on file in NYC municipal records — not a certification of compliance.

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LL97 carbon exposure by compliance period
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Open permits & construction pipeline
Distress signal convergence
Air rights & transferable development rights
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Data: NYC municipal records (Departments of City Planning, Buildings, Finance) and FEMA. See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.