194 Essex Street
Brooklyn · 11208 · BBL 3039560062 · look up another building
One residential eviction on record here, more than 9 in 10 buildings its size in 11208.
Most recent filing on this building: an eviction, May 1, 2025
194 Essex Street is a one and two family building in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, ZIP 11208. City records date it to 1899 and count a single home. The city's property file lists the owner of record as a private individual. Its total assessed value is $63K, for the 2026 tax year.
No DHCR registration is on file for this address, which is a gap in the record rather than an answer about your apartment. The state will send you your own rent history free, and it is the only binding answer on what you should be paying.
The November 1 report on this block
On the first of every month we email one page about tax block 3956 in Brooklyn, the block 194 Essex Street is on. It lists what was filed there that month, then where the block stands. As of today, that part reads:
- 2 buildings changed hands in the last twelve months.
- The block holds 49 parcels and 91 residential units.
Anything filed on 194 Essex Street itself comes the next morning.
Taxes and assessed value for 194 Essex Street
The city's Department of Finance assessed this lot at $63K for the 2026 tax year. Assessed value is what the city taxes, not what the building would sell for, and the two routinely differ by a wide margin. The bill itself turns on the tax class rate and on any exemptions or abatements attached to the lot, neither of which is published here.
1 marshal eviction at 194 Essex Street
City marshals executed 1 eviction at 194 Essex Street in the record PulseCities holds, the most recent on May 1, 2025. That is more than 9 in 10 buildings its size in 11208. Holding the marshal docket number or the court index number from one of these? Look up that case →
Rent stabilization at 194 Essex Street
No DHCR rent-stabilization registration is on file for 194 Essex Street in the years PulseCities holds. Absence is not proof: an owner who stops registering leaves the same gap as a building that never had stabilized units. Checking your own apartment starts with the free rent history from the state. That is the only binding answer, and it takes time to come back. While you wait, you can get an email when the record here moves: a deed, an eviction, a permit or a violation filed on this building. How to check rent-stabilized status →
How 194 Essex Street compares in 11208
PulseCities tracks 11,309 lots in 11208, of which 276 carry an executed eviction from the marshal record, which starts in April 2024, and 794 carry a deed from the shorter ACRIS window. This building is in that second group, which is 2.4% of the ZIP. 11208 scores 45.1 out of 100 for displacement pressure, 32 of 177 scored NYC ZIP codes. The full signal breakdown for Cypress Hills →
Other buildings on this block
The city's files carry a record for 5 other addresses on tax block 3956 in Brooklyn. They run in lot order, which is roughly the order you would walk them:
Questions about 194 Essex Street
Who owns 194 Essex Street?
The city's property file lists a private individual as the owner of record for 194 Essex Street. No deed for this lot appears in the ACRIS records PulseCities holds, so that name comes from the tax roll rather than from a recorded transfer.
Has 194 Essex Street changed hands recently?
No deed for 194 Essex Street appears in the ACRIS records PulseCities holds. That means no transfer has been published for this lot in the current window, not that the building has never been sold.
Have there been evictions at 194 Essex Street?
Yes. One marshal-executed eviction at 194 Essex Street appears in the NYC evictions dataset, the most recent on May 1, 2025. The dataset covers executed evictions only, so it undercounts housing court activity: cases that settle or end in a move-out never reach a marshal.
Is 194 Essex Street rent stabilized?
No DHCR registration for 194 Essex Street appears in the years PulseCities holds. That is a gap in the registration record rather than an answer about any apartment, and the free rent history from NYS Homes and Community Renewal is what settles it.
What is 194 Essex Street assessed at for property taxes?
The Department of Finance assessed the lot at $63K for the 2026 tax year. That is the figure the city taxes rather than a sale price, and the bill depends on the tax class rate and on any exemptions on the lot.
What is the displacement risk around 194 Essex Street?
11208 (Cypress Hills) scores 45.1 out of 100 on the PulseCities displacement index. The score reads five ZIP-level signals: LLC acquisition rate, permit intensity, 311 complaint volume, executed evictions, and serious HPD violations. It describes the area around the building, not the building itself.
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Sourced from NYC public records: ACRIS deeds, DOB permits, the NYC evictions dataset, and 311. Records reflect what agencies have published and can lag events.