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Bath Beach

Bath Beach is in southwestern Brooklyn on Gravesend Bay, across 86th Street from Bensonhurst and next to Dyker Beach Park. Despite the name, the original beach was paved over; the Shore Parkway promenade and bike path run along the water instead. Housing is mostly small: about 71% of residential lots are one- or two-family homes and another quarter hold three to five units, with a few larger apartment buildings. The D train runs on the elevated West End Line above 86th Street along the northern edge, stopping at 18th Avenue, 20th Avenue and Bay Parkway. Bensonhurst Park (17.5 acres) and Bath Beach Park are inside the area.

Bath Beach has 6,534 open HPD housing violations, 916 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,647 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 50th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
6,534
916 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,647
289 Class C · 49th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C916 · 14%Class B2,924 · 45%Class A2,694 · 41%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

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

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous289
  • Class B · hazardous454
  • Class A · non-hazardous625

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

Good to know

  • D train stops on 86th Street: 18 Av, 20 Av, Bay Pkwy
  • About 71% of residential lots are one- or two-family homes (PLUTO)
  • Bensonhurst Park covers 17.5 acres on Gravesend Bay
  • Part of Brooklyn Community District 11

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

Independent re-check 2026-10-12: subway stations re-matched by point-in-polygon of the MTA Subway Stations list (39hk-dx4f) against the 2020 NTA boundary (9nt8-h7nd), edge stations noted; every named park and its acreage re-matched to NYC Parks Properties (enfh-gkve); NYCHA developments re-matched to phvi-damg; housing-stock shares recomputed from current PLUTO residential lots inside the NTA polygon (year built is partly estimated in PLUTO). Boundaries, history and landmarks checked against the cited Wikipedia articles and the EPA site page where used. No crime, safety or demographic claims.

Sources

  1. Bath Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations (station locations and daytime routes) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via Open NY (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.