Questions about this building
Does 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn have open violations?
Yes. 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn had 96 open violations on September 26, 2026: 92 from HPD and 4 from OATH/ECB. 16 are Class C, the class HPD treats as immediately hazardous.
Is 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn getting better or worse?
Open violations are sitting, with little movement either way. 16 open Class C, with 0 certifications filed and 1 new Class C in the last 180 days, too few to call a direction. That window ends September 26, 2026. It compares certifications filed with new Class C violations, and it describes what happened, not what anyone intends.
Does 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn have an OATH hearing coming up?
Yes. 4 hearings scheduled on DOB summonses, the first on October 19, 2026. DOB summonses are heard at OATH, the city's hearings office, and OATH can move a hearing to a later date. When nobody shows up, the summons is decided by default, the costliest way one ends.
Does 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn have active DOB violations?
Yes. 13 active DOB violations, most of them for low-pressure boilers. The newest was issued June 30, 2023. The Department of Buildings writes these separately from HPD's housing violations, for things like boilers, elevators, facades, construction and energy filings. Each one stays active until DOB resolves or dismisses it.
Is 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn in housing court?
Yes. 1 open housing court case, opened August 18, 2022. HPD takes buildings to housing court to get violations fixed and heat and hot water restored, and it joins tenants' own repair cases, called tenant actions. A case stays open until the court closes it.
Has DOB received complaints about 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn?
Yes. 1 DOB complaint in the last 12 months. It was filed December 29, 2025. Anyone can complain to DOB about a building or the work going on in it, and DOB then inspects and decides whether there is a violation. A conversion complaint says an apartment may have been added or changed without approval. It is a complaint, not a finding.
Is 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn rent stabilized?
The building has rent-stabilized apartments on its 2024 registration. That comes from the Rent Guidelines Board's list of buildings with at least one stabilized apartment registered that year. Buildings that registered late are left off, and a 421-a or J-51 building can leave stabilization when its tax benefit ends. A particular apartment's status is for NYS HCR to say.
When was 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn built?
The city's record gives 1900 as the year 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn was built, in the Department of City Planning's PLUTO tax-lot file. The same file classes it as a walk-up apartment building with 4 floors.
How many apartments does 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn have?
The Department of City Planning's PLUTO tax-lot file lists 19 residential units at 25 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn. The count is for the whole tax lot.
Where do these numbers come from?
From New York City's own data: HPD housing violations and OATH/ECB hearing results, read whole rather than sampled. It also draws on OATH hearing dates, DOB violations, HPD's housing court cases, DOB complaints, the Rent Guidelines Board's stabilized-building lists and the city's PLUTO tax-lot file. This page is current through September 26, 2026. The city's data changes daily, so a violation certified after that can still show as open here; the city's own page for this building is linked above.
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ViolationScout, 25 Mac Donough St, Brooklyn: violations, from New York City's HPD violation and OATH/ECB hearing data. Figures through September 26, 2026. https://violationscout.com/building/25-mac-donough-street-brooklyn
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