537 East 5 Street
Brooklyn · 11218 · BBL 3053740066
537 East 5 Street is a multi-family walk-up in Kensington, Brooklyn, ZIP 11218. City records date it to 1930 and count 4 residential units. The city's property file lists the owner of record as Herbst, Lisa M. Its most recent total assessed value is $434K.
What the eviction record shows
City marshals executed 1 eviction at 537 East 5 Street in the record PulseCities holds, the most recent on Jan 13, 2025. Holding the marshal docket number or the court index number from one of these? Look up that case →
Rent stabilization at this address
No DHCR rent-stabilization registration is on file for 537 East 5 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. How to check rent-stabilized status →
Open violations
HPD and DOB inspectors have written 1 violation against this building, of which 1 remains unresolved. The most serious open grade here is class I, immediately hazardous, with 1 open violation.
Classes run A (non-hazardous) to C (immediately hazardous); DOB class I carries a vacate order. Source: NYC HPD violations, current through August 26, 2026.
311 housing complaints
1 complaints in the past 12 months
NYC 311 housing and building complaints logged for this address. Source: NYC 311, current through August 26, 2026.
How 537 East 5 Street compares in 11218
PulseCities tracks 6,867 lots in 11218, of which 104 carry an executed eviction from the marshal record, which starts in April 2024, and 358 carry a deed from the shorter ACRIS window. This building is in that second group, which is 1.5% of the ZIP. 11218 scores 30.0 out of 100 for displacement pressure, 97 of 177 scored NYC ZIP codes. The full signal breakdown for Kensington →
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Questions about 537 East 5 Street
Who owns 537 East 5 Street?
The most recent deed on file for 537 East 5 Street names Herbst, Lisa M. Deeds record the party that took title, which is often a holding company rather than the operator managing the building.
Has 537 East 5 Street changed hands recently?
No deed for 537 East 5 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 537 East 5 Street?
Yes. One marshal-executed eviction at 537 East 5 Street appears in the NYC evictions dataset, the most recent on Jan 13, 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 537 East 5 Street rent stabilized?
No DHCR registration for 537 East 5 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 the displacement risk around 537 East 5 Street?
11218 (Kensington) scores 30.0 out of 100 on the PulseCities displacement index. The score reads five ZIP-level signals: eviction rate, LLC acquisition rate, permit intensity, assessment spikes, and 311 complaint volume. It describes the area around the building, not the building itself.
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.