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Brooklyn Community District 17

Brooklyn Community District 17 covers East Flatbush and its sub-neighborhoods, including Farragut, Remsen Village, Rugby and Erasmus, in central Brooklyn east of Flatbush. Clarkson Avenue forms much of its northern edge. Housing is a mix of houses and apartments: in PLUTO tax-lot data, about 38% of the roughly 62,000 residential units are in one- to three-family houses, 28% in walk-ups and 27% in elevator buildings. The 2 and 5 stop at Church Av, Beverly Rd and Newkirk Av-Little Haiti along Nostrand Avenue on the western side; the eastern side has no subway station. Paerdegat Park and the Wyckoff House, a Dutch farmhouse whose oldest part is dated to about 1652, are here.

Brooklyn Community District 17 has 116,062 open HPD housing violations, 24,642 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 36,586 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 3rd most open violations of 18 community districts in Brooklyn. Per apartment it ranks 1st of 59 citywide, at 1869.6 open violations per 1,000 homes.

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Open HPD violations
116,062
24,642 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
36,586
11,153 Class C · 2nd in Brooklyn
Residential units
62.1K
18,273 tax lots
Open violations per 1,000 homes
1869.6
City median 760.6
Heat complaints this season
158
131 by this date last season
Average year built
1932
Lots with a known year
Rent-stabilized units (2024)
22.2K
805 buildings · 36% of homes
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C24,642 · 21%Class B57,862 · 50%Class A33,558 · 29%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

What residents report to 311
Housing-related 311 complaints, last 12 months
  • Heat / hot water10.2K
  • Residential noise8,135
  • Unsanitary condition4,936
  • Plumbing2,941
  • Paint / plaster2,684
  • Door / window2,027
  • Water leak2,026
  • General repairs1,498
  • Electric1,451
  • Flooring / stairs1,093

Source: NYC 311 Service Requests · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Open violations per 1,000 homes: Brooklyn community districts
Brooklyn Community District 17 highlighted
  • CD 171,869.6
  • CD 31,779.1
  • CD 41,671
  • CD 51,667.1
  • CD 161,664.5
  • CD 81,583.3
  • CD 91,225.1
  • CD 121,182.4
  • CD 71,176.6
  • CD 141,049.5
  • CD 18760.6
  • CD 6752.2
  • CD 11699.1
  • CD 1692.5
  • CD 10688.6
  • CD 13553.8
  • CD 2528.2
  • CD 15512.7

Source: NYC HPD violations and DCP PLUTO · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • Subway: 2 and 5 at Church Av, Beverly Rd and Newkirk Av-Little Haiti; the eastern half of the district has no subway station
  • About 38% of residential units are in one- to three-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Parks include Paerdegat Park and Nostrand Playground
  • The Wyckoff House at 5816 Clarendon Road, one of the oldest surviving Dutch frame houses in America, sits in NYC Parks' Fidler-Wyckoff House Park

Neighborhoods included

East Flatbush · Farragut · Flatbush · Northeast Flatbush · Remsen Village · Rugby · Erasmus

Before you rent or buy here

Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Neighborhood list from the NYC Planning community profile. Subway stations placed by point-in-polygon test of MTA station coordinates against NYC Planning community district boundaries (data.cityofnewyork.us 5crt-au7u); 'on the edge' means within about 30 m of the boundary. Housing shares are PLUTO 26v2 residential units by building class (A/B and C0 = one- to three-family homes, other C = walk-up apartment buildings, D = elevator buildings, R = condos). Parks from NYC Parks Properties (data.cityofnewyork.us enfh-gkve). Wyckoff House date and description from Wikipedia (Wyckoff House); location confirmed inside the district boundary by point-in-polygon. Independently re-verified 2026-10-12: neighborhood lists match the NYC Planning Community Profiles app data; station placement re-run against MTA 39hk-dx4f and boundaries 5crt-au7u; PLUTO 26v2 unit shares and totals recomputed; park acreage and boards from enfh-gkve; NYCHA counts from evjd-dqpz. Fact-check 2026-10-12: Wyckoff House date corrected to about 1652 (Wikipedia infobox, dendrochronology) and placed in NYC Parks' Fidler-Wyckoff House Park (board 317); East New York Av and E 98 St boundary claims removed (PLUTO shows lots on both in other districts).

Sources

  1. Brooklyn Community District 17 profile · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.