Is 55 Cumberland St rent stabilized?
55 Cumberland St is a registered NYC rent-stabilized building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn (11205). It has about 10 apartments, built in 1905.
Also written as 55 Cumberland Street — or 55 Cumberland St, Brooklyn, NY 11205.
How this building compares
With about 10 apartments it sits near the middle of the 164 rent-stabilized buildings this site tracks in Fort Greene, where the median building has 9. It went up in 1905, 15 years before the 1920 median for stabilized buildings tracked in the neighborhood. HPD lists 6 open violations here, about 0.6 per apartment — above the one for every 2 apartments median for tracked buildings in the neighborhood. Of the 111 violations on record at the address, 34 are class C — HPD's immediately hazardous grade. Tenants have filed 154 HPD complaints at the address, 19 of them in the last twelve months.
Building details
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Neighborhood | Fort Greene |
| ZIP | 11205 |
| Year built | 1905 |
| Apartments | 10 |
| Rent-stabilized | Yes — DHCR registered |
| Stabilization code | MULTIPLE DWELLING A |
| BBL | 3020300056 |
Owner & management
| Owner | 55 CUMBERLAND REALTY LLC 744 CONEY ISLAND AVE · Brooklyn, NY 11218 |
| Managing agent | MENDY LOWY |
Building conditions
| HPD violations | 6 open / 111 total · 6 in last 12 mo |
| HPD complaints | 0 open / 154 total |
| HPD registration last filed | June 25, 2025 |
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Frequently asked questions
Is 55 Cumberland St rent stabilized?
55 Cumberland St in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is registered as rent stabilized in the New York State DHCR 2024 rent-stabilized building files. 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 55 Cumberland St?
55 Cumberland St (BBL 3020300056) has about 10 residential apartments and was built in 1905, from NYC PLUTO. PLUTO counts the building's units; it does not say how many of them are rent stabilized, and the DHCR files this site is built on register the building rather than its individual apartments.