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418 Halden Street, Brooklyn

Sample: a made-up building

54 open Class C violations, and 1 certified since March.

6 stories and 48 apartments, built 1928. The same owner holds 6 more buildings on HPD's registration, and 3 of them are stuck the same way.

Responsible party

Wick & Colt Property Group LLC owns it, with its head officer named on HPD's registration through September 1, 2027. Halden Realty Services manages the building.1

How to reach them

The office line, (718) 555-0147, from a lookup made for this file. Mail goes to 210 Harbor Street, Brooklyn, the address on the registration.2

What to offer

  1. Certify the 14 Class C violations whose certify-by dates are still ahead.3
  2. Answer the DOB summons before its OATH hearing on October 16.5
  3. Carry out the facade repairs the 2023 report named.6
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Everything on this page is made up: the building, the parties, the phone number (the 555 exchange is reserved for fiction) and every figure. The shape is the real file's.

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Registration

The owner and its head officer are on HPD's registration for this building, renewed each year since 2011.

Owner of record
Wick & Colt Property Group LLC
Head officer
M. Colt (a made-up name; a real file names the person)
Managing agent
Halden Realty Services LLC
Registered through
September 1, 2027

From HPD's Multiple Dwelling Registrations and Registration Contacts, read through September 24, 2026.

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How to reach them

The registration gives a business address. The phone comes from a lookup we make for each file, matched to that address, so the line reaches the party the city holds responsible.

Office line
(718) 555-0147, matched to the registration's address
Mailing address
210 Harbor Street, Brooklyn
Managing agent's office
54 Carrow Place, Brooklyn

In a real file the phone comes from a lookup made for the firm the file goes to. This one is made up.

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The deadline record

Since September 2023, 23 Class C violations were certified: 18 by the certify-by date, 4 after it, and 1 that HPD later marked a false certification. None were certified in the second half of 2025. 14 open Class C still have a certify-by date ahead, and that is the work a firm can take on now.

Class C certifications filed, by quarter
2024 2025 2026
by the date, 18after the date, 4marked false, 1
Open Class C with a certify-by date still ahead
6October 5November 3December

From HPD's violation data: each certification's filing date against its certify-by date. HPD's own marks, never ours.

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What is open

72 open HPD violations: 54 Class C, 15 Class B and 3 Class A, inspected in the last 3 years. DOB lists 7 more as active. The Class C count has sat between 51 and 54 for 13 weeks: 9 new in the last 180 days, 1 certified.

Open Class C by category
Heat and hot water17 Vermin and pests12 Mold9 Leaks7 Lead paint5 Electrical4
Open Class C, week by week
5154 Jul 2Sep 24

From HPD's open flag on its own violation data and DOB's active violations, read through September 24, 2026.

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Hearings and court

A DOB summons for work without a permit goes to an OATH hearing on October 16, 2026. HPD has a repairs case against the building in housing court, opened March 4, 2026 and still pending.

OATH hearing
October 16, 2026, on a DOB summons for work without a permit
Housing court
HPD's case for repairs, opened March 4, 2026, pending

From OATH's hearing data for DOB summonses and HPD's housing litigation data.

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The rest of the building

Everything else the city holds on this address, dated. Each line is a reason to call as much as the open count is.

Facade
Rated SWARMP in the report filed May 2, 2023 (inspection cycle 9). SWARMP means safe with a repair and maintenance program.
Boiler
Inspected January 12, 2026
Bedbug report
Filed for the year ending October 31, 2025
Elevator
Work filed with DOB June 3, 2026
Emergency repairs
6 completed by HPD since 2023, most recently for heat, August 14, 2025
Energy
ENERGY STAR score 41; on DOB's Local Law 97 list
Certificate of occupancy
Final, issued 1962
Rent stabilization
Rent-stabilized apartments on the 2024 registration

From DOB's facade filings, boiler inspections and elevator filings, HPD's bedbug reports and emergency repair charges, the city's energy benchmarking and Local Law 97 list, and the Rent Guidelines Board's list.

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The owner's other buildings

The same owner, matched on its exact registered name, holds 6 more buildings. 3 are stuck the way this one is, so one call can open more than one job.

BuildingOpen Class CDirection
418 Halden Street, Brooklyn54Stuck
22 Sorrel Lane, Queens31Certifying
905 Fen Street, Bronx22Stuck
61 Tarrow Avenue, Brooklyn14Stuck
1402 Ansel Place, Brooklyn9Certifying
88 Wren Court, Queens6Stuck
330 Pell Road, Brooklyn0Nothing open

Matched on the exact registered name, never a near spelling. Every address here is made up.

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Where it ranks

3rd of 214 Brooklyn buildings

214 Brooklyn buildings took a new Class C this week. Ranked by the hazardous work open and whether anyone is acting on it, this one comes third.

The ranking is the file's. The public building pages never publish it.

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