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Kensington, Brooklyn — buildings, landlords and records

Kensington, Brooklyn has 2,827 residential buildings on the city's tax roll, holding 14,410 homes; the 40 largest are listed below with what is open against them.

Across the 40 biggest buildings here, 2,161 violations are open with the Department of Buildings, Housing Preservation and Development, or the Environmental Control Board.

What the city records say

BoroughBrooklyn
Residential buildings2,827
Homes14,410
Census tracts10
Open violations, listed buildings2,161

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Every violation in full, permits and job filings, elevator and boiler records, facade deadlines, recorded sales and deeds — read live from the city's data.

The biggest residential buildings here

  1. 135 Ocean Parkway286 homes · built 1965 · 264 open
  2. 333 Mcdonald Avenue268 homes · built 1960 · 421 open
  3. 217 East 7 Street174 homes · built 1951 · 16 open
  4. 303 Beverley Road150 homes · built 1956 · 81 open
  5. 455 Ocean Parkway147 homes · built 1964 · 2 open
  6. 370 Ocean Parkway133 homes · built 1961 · 1 open
  7. 415 Beverley Road130 homes · built 1963 · 1 open
  8. 465 East 7 Street125 homes · built 1963 · 20 open
  9. 515 East 7 Street123 homes · built 1961 · 170 open
  10. 70 Dahill Road122 homes · built 1934 · 10 open
  11. 540 Ocean Parkway114 homes · built 1962 · 15 open
  12. 280 Ocean Parkway114 homes · built 1941 · 11 open
  13. 599 East 7 Street114 homes · built 1961 · 39 open
  14. 465 Ocean Parkway98 homes · built 1951 · 254 open
  15. 178 Ocean Parkway96 homes · built 1928 · 202 open
  16. 300 Ocean Parkway94 homes · built 1941 · 4 open
  17. 800 Cortelyou Road93 homes · built 1960 · 7 open
  18. 214 East 8 Street91 homes · built 1960 · 25 open
  19. 315 Ocean Parkway90 homes · built 1961 · 2 open
  20. 430 East 8 Street90 homes · built 1961 · 37 open
  21. 545 Ocean Parkway89 homes · built 1963 · 30 open
  22. 302 Beverley Road88 homes · built 1961 · 10 open
  23. 495 East 7 Street85 homes · built 1962 · 59 open
  24. 811 Cortelyou Road84 homes · built 1941 · 2 open
  25. 125 Ocean Parkway84 homes · built 1940 · 24 open
  26. 36 Dahill Road84 homes · built 1950 · 3 open
  27. 430 Ocean Parkway84 homes · built 1941 · 8 open
  28. 499 East 8 Street83 homes · built 1963 · 134 open
  29. 2 Hinckley Place82 homes · built 1927 · 39 open
  30. 602 Ocean Parkway78 homes · built 1930 · 57 open
  31. 260 Ocean Parkway77 homes · built 1930 · 32 open
  32. 250 Ocean Parkway77 homes · built 1925 · 30 open
  33. 279 Ocean Parkway77 homes · built 1926 · 5 open
  34. 340 Ocean Parkway77 homes · built 1962 · 21 open
  35. 428 East 9th Street76 homes · built 2023 · nothing open
  36. 40 Tehama Street75 homes · built 1931 · 58 open
  37. 225 Ocean Parkway75 homes · built 1963 · 22 open
  38. 514 Ocean Parkway74 homes · built 1962 · 15 open
  39. 403 Avenue C72 homes · built 1915 · 22 open
  40. 470 Ocean Parkway72 homes · built 1931 · 8 open

Ranked by how many homes the tax roll records, not by anything this site has judged.

Owners of record with the most homes here

Owners are matched by the name on the tax roll. A company recorded under more than one spelling appears more than once, and one holding company can stand behind several names.

Questions people ask

How many buildings are there in Kensington, Brooklyn?

The Department of Finance's tax roll records 2,827 residential buildings in Kensington, Brooklyn, holding 14,410 homes between them. That counts lots with at least one residential unit; garages, lots and purely commercial buildings are not in it.

How many violations are open in Kensington?

This page does not carry a neighborhood total, and deliberately: the city publishes violations against buildings and none of the three feeds carries a census tract, so a true total would mean one query per building. What it does show is 2,161 open violations across the 40 largest buildings listed here. Each building's own page carries its full count.

Who owns the most buildings in Kensington?

By homes on the tax roll, Ville De Port INC is the largest owner of record in Kensington, with 314 homes across 2 lots. Being the largest owner is a statement about size and nothing else.

What counts as Kensington?

The boundary is the City Planning Department's Neighborhood Tabulation Area of that name — 10 census tracts in Brooklyn. NTAs are the city's own named geography, so this page draws Kensington where the city draws it, which will not always match where a listing agent or a lifelong resident draws it.

How this page is put together

Kensington is the City Planning Department's Neighborhood Tabulation Area of that name. Buildings are matched to it through the 2020 census tract the Department of Finance records for each lot, and DCP's own tract-to-NTA equivalency table — no estimate and no map-drawing. Checked against the neighborhood the Department of Buildings prints on its own permits: 295 lots sampled, 295 agreements, no disagreements.

Counts come from the tax roll on the day this page was built. Violation counts are for the buildings listed above only, because the city publishes violations against buildings and not against neighborhoods.

Please read

Check a Building reports facts about buildings and the entities that own them. It is not a consumer reporting agency, and this is not a tenant-screening service. Nothing here may be used to decide whether to rent to, hire, insure, lend to, or otherwise evaluate an individual person. It is not assembled or maintained for those purposes, it has not been prepared to the standards those decisions require, and it must not be used for them.

Every figure on this page is drawn from New York City's own published records and is reproduced without warranty that it is complete, current or accurate. Records are matched to an owner by name; a company can be recorded under more than one spelling, and two companies can share one. Verify anything you intend to rely on against the agency's own record. If something here is wrong, tell us — there is a correction link on every record in the app.