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City Council district · Brooklyn

City Council District 46

City Council District 46 covers southeast Brooklyn along Jamaica Bay: Canarsie, Flatlands, Georgetown, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach and part of Sheepshead Bay. It is mostly a district of houses: in PLUTO tax-lot data about 69% of its roughly 57,000 homes are in one- and two-family houses, only about 27% are in buildings built before 1940, and about 7% are in NYCHA-owned buildings. Rail access is limited to the L train's terminal at Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy. It has some of Brooklyn's largest parks, including Marine Park (800 acres), Canarsie Park and Paerdegat Basin Park.

City Council District 46 has 37,753 open HPD housing violations, 4,966 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 5,247 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 16th most open violations of 16 council districts in Brooklyn. Per apartment it ranks 30th of 51 citywide, at 659.4 open violations per 1,000 homes.

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Open HPD violations
37,753
4,966 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
5,247
1,118 Class C · 16th in Brooklyn
Residential units
57.3K
31,293 tax lots
Open violations per 1,000 homes
659.4
City median 778.9
Heat complaints this season
27
23 by this date last season
Average year built
1947
Lots with a known year
Homes in pre-1974, 6+ unit buildings
8.8K
Where rent stabilization is most common
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C4,966 · 13%Class B20,742 · 55%Class A12,045 · 32%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 noise3,656
  • Heat / hot water2,120
  • Unsanitary condition1,028
  • Plumbing632
  • Building use462
  • Paint / plaster390
  • Electric320
  • Water leak296
  • Door / window249
  • Rodents234

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

Open violations per 1,000 homes: Brooklyn council districts
City Council District 46 highlighted

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

Good to know

  • Subway: L terminal at Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy is the only station in the district
  • About 69% of homes are in one- and two-family houses (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Marine Park (800 acres), Canarsie Park (132 acres) and Paerdegat Basin Park (119 acres)
  • Four Sparrow Marsh and McGuire Fields are also city park properties here

Neighborhoods included

Bergen Beach · Canarsie · Flatlands · Georgetown · Gerritsen Beach · Marine Park · Mill Basin · Mill Island · Sheepshead Bay

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Re-verified 2026-10-12. Neighborhood list matches the District 46 page on council.nyc.gov. Re-ran PLUTO 26v2 Socrata queries (data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/64uk-42ks) on lots with council='46': 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 46 · 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.