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Marketing & leasing
Architecture-grade photography, transparent listings with the entire requirement set disclosed up front, and showings conducted in person by a named leasing agent — not a rotating call center.
Volume 2026 ◆ Issue 01
Brooklyn property management. Run like a print magazine.
Ninety doors across Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Greenpoint, and Park Slope. Every listing publishes credit, income, pet policy, and building rules in plain language — so you know if you'll qualify before you take an L train across the river.
Three doors
Wherever you arrived from.
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Prospective residents
Browse the live portfolio across five Brooklyn neighborhoods. Every listing publishes its credit floor, income multiple, pet rules, and any building-specific policies before you book a tour.
View residences02
Property owners
Considered stewardship for converted warehouses, brownstones, and prewar walkups. Flat eight percent, twice-monthly photo reports, and a leasing team that actually answers the phone.
Owner services03
Current residents
Pay rent, request maintenance, file a renewal — or message Yusra and the resident-services team. One door for everything.
Resident portal13 days
Avg time to lease
< 4h
Inquiry response
96%
Renewal rate
Operating disciplines
A building, properly run.
Six disciplines, all kept in-house. We resist the urge to scale: every owner is known to us by name, every building is walked twice a month.
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Tenant screening
Credit, employment, prior-landlord references, and a written decision inside one business day. We use the same 660 / 2.5× standard on every applicant — no surprises, no quiet adjustments.
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Rent collection
Online portal with auto-reminders, owner draws on the tenth, ACH at no cost to residents, and one consolidated statement covering every door we operate for you.
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24/7 maintenance
After-hours line answered live by a person, not a chatbot. Vetted local trades — Marcy Plumbing, Stagg Electric, North Brooklyn HVAC — invoiced through at cost with no markup.
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Owner reporting
Mid-month and end-of-month reports with photographs of unit and building condition, a written maintenance summary, and a tax-ready package every January.
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Compliance & evictions
NYC HPD and DOB compliance kept current, fair-housing-trained leasing, and — on the rare occasion it is required — eviction proceedings filed and managed through Brooklyn Housing Court.
Just listed
New on the market this week
Recently available units in our portfolio. Most lease inside two weeks at this price tier.
Where we operate
Concentrated in five neighborhoods
Ninety doors across Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Greenpoint, and Park Slope. Filter the map by neighborhood or bedroom count to see what is currently open.
City Beds
Where we operate
Neighborhoods.
Transparent requirements
Know before you apply.
Every Block & Stone listing publishes the same standards in the same plain language. If a particular building layers on stricter terms, those are flagged on the listing as well — so the decision to apply is yours, fully informed.
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660
Minimum credit
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2.5× monthly rent
Income to rent
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7 years
Eviction lookback
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7 years (felonies); 3 years (misdemeanors)
Criminal lookback
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Welcome — building rules apply
Pet policy
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Accepted at 80× rent annual income
Co-signers
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$20 per adult (NY law)
Application fee
Why Block & Stone
Built for renters who do their homework.
We started Block & Stone in 2014 after watching too many Brooklyn renters get strung along by listing brokers who hid the credit minimum, the dog policy, and the application fee until the day of the showing. Mira and Daniel had each spent half a decade on the leasing side of larger firms; the founding decision was to publish everything — and stake the firm's reputation on doing so.
- 01 Requirements upfront Every listing shows the credit floor, income multiple, pet rules, and any building-specific terms before you reach out. No bait-and-switch, no surprise broker fees.
- 02 Real humans on the ground Our leasing team — Yusra, Felix, and Priya — work out of our Williamsburg office on Wythe Avenue. They answer the phone in business hours and reply to written inquiries within four.
- 03 Move-in ready Every unit gets a full turnover between residents: paint, deep clean, professional inspection, HVAC service, and any deferred maintenance closed before the next move-in.
- 04 Honest pricing Listed rent is what you pay. No "amenity fees" tacked on at signing. New York law caps application fees at $20; that is exactly what we charge.
In their words
Three perspectives on the experience.
I'd been ghosted by three Brooklyn brokers in the same week before I found Block & Stone. Their listing told me up front that they'd take a 660 score with a co-signer at 80×. I qualified, applied Tuesday, signed Friday. Two years in.
I own a 12-unit walk-up in Bushwick I inherited from my father. Block & Stone took it over after my last manager skipped two HPD inspection windows in a row. They cleared the violations inside a month and I haven't had a single one since. Reports arrive twice monthly — I see what's happening to the building.
Six years in the same Greenpoint apartment. Block & Stone took over from the original landlord three years ago and the building has actually gotten better — the lobby is painted, the boiler was replaced last winter, the front door buzzer finally works. They renew our lease without raising the rent more than market.
Recognized
Affiliations and honors.
NARPM Member
National Association of Residential Property Managers
IREM Certified
Institute of Real Estate Management
BBB A+ Rated
Accredited business since 2017
Equal Housing Opportunity
Fair-housing trained, annually
How it works
From inquiry to keys in two weeks
Most of our residents close on a unit within 14 days of first contact.
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Browse
See every available unit on a single page. Filter by neighborhood, beds, laundry, or pet policy. The map updates as you filter.
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Tour
Book a showing online. A named leasing agent meets you at the building — not a generic open-house broker juggling six listings at once.
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Apply
Our application takes 12 minutes. $20 per adult. Decision in writing within one business day.
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Move in
Sign digitally, fund first month + security, and we coordinate the building keyset and HPD-compliant move-in inspection. Keys at the door.
Field notes
From the editor.
Notes on Brooklyn buildings, neighborhood shifts, and the considered work of running a small portfolio. Brief, infrequent, and free of marketing.
Common questions
Asked and answered.
Six of the questions we receive most often. If yours is not addressed below, we reply to written inquiries within four business hours.
01 How do you set rent on a unit?
We pull comparable closed leases within the same building or, where the building is small, within four blocks at the same tier of construction. The benchmark is written, with three to five comps, and we present a recommended figure with a brief positioning note. Owners decide the listed rent; we tell them honestly when a number will sit on market.
02 What is the management fee?
A flat eight percent of collected rent. No setup fee, no vendor markup — Marcy Plumbing, Stagg Electric, and North Brooklyn HVAC invoice through at cost. Leasing-only placement is a flat $1,500. Engagement is month-to-month, terminable on thirty days written notice on either side.
03 How long do units sit vacant between residents?
Average time on market in our portfolio is thirteen days from listing to signed lease. Williamsburg and Greenpoint one-bedrooms typically lease faster than that; Park Slope brownstone floor-throughs occasionally take longer in summer when families are between school years.
04 What standards do you use to qualify residents?
A 660 credit minimum, gross monthly income at or above 2.5× rent, two years of rental history, and a clean seven-year eviction record. Co-signers welcome at 80× annual income. We use the same standards on every applicant; the rules are published on every listing.
05 What happens if a resident stops paying rent?
We are in contact within 48 hours of a missed payment and document every step in writing. If a payment plan cannot be reached, we serve the 14-day NYC notice and proceed through Brooklyn Housing Court. In our eleven years of operation we have filed eviction in fewer than two percent of tenancies.
06 How do you handle pets and emotional-support animals?
About seventy-five percent of our buildings welcome pets within building rules; the actual fee, if any, is on each listing. Documented assistance and emotional-support animals are accommodated in every building per Fair Housing law, with no additional fee.
For owners
A complimentary rental analysis, by post.
A written rent benchmark, three to five comparable units within four blocks of your building, and a positioning memo — typically within three business days. No obligation, no follow-up sales call unless you ask for one.
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