Is 261 Lenox Rd rent stabilized?
261 Lenox Rd is a registered NYC rent-stabilized building in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn (11226). It has about 120 apartments, built in 1956.
Also written as 261 Lenox Road — or 261 Lenox Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11226.
How this building compares
With about 120 apartments it is larger than 96% of the 420 rent-stabilized buildings this site tracks in East Flatbush-Erasmus. It went up in 1956, 25 years after the 1931 median for stabilized buildings tracked in the neighborhood. HPD lists 157 open violations here, about 1.3 per apartment — above the 0.9 per apartment median for tracked buildings in the neighborhood. Of the 1,196 violations on record at the address, 256 are class C — HPD's immediately hazardous grade, and 40 of them are still open. HPD issued 207 new violations at the address in the last twelve months.
Building details
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Neighborhood | East Flatbush-Erasmus |
| ZIP | 11226 |
| Year built | 1956 |
| Apartments | 120 |
| Rent-stabilized | Yes — DHCR registered |
| Stabilization code | MULTIPLE DWELLING A |
| BBL | 3050660071 |
Owner & management
| Owner | 261 Lenox Road LLC 261 Lenox Road OFFICE · Brooklyn, NY 11226 |
| Managing agent | Yida Stern |
Building conditions
| HPD violations | 157 open / 1196 total · 207 in last 12 mo |
| HPD complaints | 27 open / 2162 total |
| HPD registration last filed | August 27, 2025 |
Full building report — $9
Frequently asked questions
Is 261 Lenox Rd rent stabilized?
261 Lenox Rd in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn is registered as rent stabilized in the New York State DHCR 2024 rent-stabilized building files, where its stabilization code is MULTIPLE DWELLING A. Registration is recorded for the building, not for each apartment in it, so an individual unit here can still have been deregulated — ask the landlord or DHCR for that apartment's rent history before relying on it.
How many apartments are at 261 Lenox Rd?
261 Lenox Rd (BBL 3050660071) has about 120 residential apartments and was built in 1956, from NYC PLUTO. PLUTO counts the building's units; it does not say how many of them are rent stabilized.
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