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City Council district · Brooklyn

City Council District 42

City Council District 42 covers eastern Brooklyn: East New York, Spring Creek and Starrett City, and parts of Brownsville, East Flatbush, Remsen Village and Canarsie, reaching south to Jamaica Bay. Housing is varied: in PLUTO tax-lot data about 38% of its roughly 68,000 homes are in elevator buildings, 25% in walk-ups and 25% in one- and two-family houses, and about 10% are in NYCHA-owned buildings. Only about 31% of homes are in buildings from before 1940, lower than in Districts 40 (65%) and 41 (55%). The L, A, C and 3 trains end or run through here, with terminals at New Lots Av (3) and Euclid Av (C). Spring Creek Park and the Fresh Creek Nature Preserve line the bay shore.

City Council District 42 has 107,007 open HPD housing violations, 20,109 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 22,156 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 4th most open violations of 16 council districts in Brooklyn. Per apartment it ranks 4th of 51 citywide, at 1583.5 open violations per 1,000 homes.

Check a building in Brooklyn

Open HPD violations
107,007
20,109 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
22,156
6,252 Class C · 6th in Brooklyn
Residential units
67.6K
16,735 tax lots
Open violations per 1,000 homes
1583.5
City median 778.9
Heat complaints this season
79
57 by this date last season
Average year built
1952
Lots with a known year
Homes in pre-1974, 6+ unit buildings
24.4K
Where rent stabilization is most common
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C20,109 · 19%Class B55,773 · 52%Class A31,125 · 29%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 12, 2026

What residents report to 311
Housing-related 311 complaints, last 12 months
  • Residential noise7,435
  • Heat / hot water6,873
  • Unsanitary condition3,499
  • Plumbing2,292
  • Paint / plaster1,735
  • Door / window1,451
  • Water leak1,269
  • Electric1,157
  • General repairs1,020
  • Appliance830

Source: NYC 311 Service Requests · data as of Oct 12, 2026

Open violations per 1,000 homes: Brooklyn council districts
City Council District 42 highlighted

Source: NYC HPD violations and DCP PLUTO · data as of Oct 12, 2026

Good to know

  • Subway: L at Livonia Av, New Lots Av and East 105 St; A and C at Euclid Av; C at Van Siclen Av and Shepherd Av; 3 at Pennsylvania Av, Van Siclen Av and New Lots Av
  • About 38% of homes are in elevator buildings and 25% in one- and two-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • About 10% of homes are in NYCHA-owned buildings
  • Parks: Spring Creek Park, Fresh Creek Nature Preserve and the Breukelen Ballfields

Neighborhoods included

East New York · Spring Creek-Starrett City · Brownsville · East Flatbush · Remsen Village · Canarsie

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.

More council districts in Brooklyn

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Re-verified 2026-10-12. Neighborhood list matches the District 42 page on council.nyc.gov. Re-ran PLUTO 26v2 Socrata queries (data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/64uk-42ks) on lots with council='42': total residential units, unit shares by building class (A/B one- and two-family, C walk-up, D elevator), units on lots with yearbuilt 1-1939, and units on lots whose owner name contains 'HOUSING AUTHORITY'; all percentages and totals in the text match. Subway/SIR stations re-placed by point-in-polygon test of MTA Subway Stations coordinates (data.ny.gov 39hk-dx4f) against the City Council Districts boundary file (872g-cjhh); station lists match. Park names, district tags and acreage checked in NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve). No crime, safety or demographic claims.

Sources

  1. Council District 42 · New York City Council (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. City Council Districts (boundary file) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)

General information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change; confirm with the agency or a professional before you act.

“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 12, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.