238 5 Avenue, Brooklyn has 46 open city records on file, 7 of them Class C (immediately hazardous), and no balance recorded as due on OATH/ECB summonses. City marshals have executed 1 eviction at this building. It last sold on Sep 18, 2019 for $5,075,000. The most recent record is dated Mar 6, 2026.
Scored from all 188 public records for this building
Scored from city records as published, which lag reality by a day or two, and closed violations rest on owner self-certification. A grade summarizes the public record, not the building itself. Full methodology · report a problem
No balance is recorded as due across the 4 summonses below, out of $3,750.00 in penalties imposed. Balances are as the city publishes them; a settlement or write-off that never reached the dataset will not show here. New to these? How an OATH summons becomes a penalty, explained.
OATH and ECB summonses for 238 5 Avenue
1492665
Nov 9, 2023
WORK WITHOUT A PERMIT. NOTE: AT TIME OF MY INSPECTION OF WORK UNDER ABOVE JOB NUMBER I OBSERVED PLUMBING WORK HAD BEEN PERFORMED WITHOUT THEPROPER PERMITTING. THE RADIATORS HAD BEEN RIPPED OUT DURING THE RENOVA
May 13, 2024
Found in violation
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1492520
Nov 9, 2023
FAILURE TO POST OR DISTRIBUTE SAFE CONSTRUCTION BILL OF RIGHTS. NOTES:AT THE TIME OF MY INSPECTION OF THE WORK UNDER THE ABOVE JOB NUMBER I OBSERVED ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION WORK IN A 2ND FLOOR APARTMENT WITH NO CON
May 13, 2024
Found in violation
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581293
Jul 7, 1997
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING DEFECT IS: REAR FIRE ESCAPE IS RUSTED AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS AND HAS A BROKEN STEP AT SECOND FLOOR. REMEDY: REPAIR DEFECTS. MAINTIAN FIRE ESCAPE.
Dec 1, 1997
Written off
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220539
Sep 11, 1990
31A, 32, BASEMENT HOODED WATER COMING FROM SEWERLINE CHEMINEY NEED TO BE CLEAN OUT EXCESSIVE SOOT.
Nov 26, 1990
Defaulted (did not respond)
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Marshal evictions at 238 5 Avenue
Each row is a warrant of eviction a city marshal actually carried out at this building, from the Department of Investigation’s eviction ledger. It records the end of a Housing Court case, not a violation. “Possession” means the tenant was removed and the space returned to the landlord. Filings that never reached execution are not in this dataset.
Executed marshal evictions at 238 5 Avenue
Oct 19, 2022
Residential
2R
Possession
Henry Daley
088539/14
Ownership history for 238 5 Avenue
Every deed the City Register has recorded against this building’s tax lot (BBL 3009580045), newest first. A price is the consideration stated on the deed; transfers between related parties, into an LLC, or by a referee often record none, shown as “—”. Each row links to the document in ACRIS.
Mortgages recorded against this building’s tax lot, with the satisfactions that paid them off and the assignments that moved them between lenders, from the City Register (ACRIS). A satisfaction usually records no amount, shown as “—”.
Lender names are as recorded; the current holder of a loan can differ if a later assignment was never recorded.
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