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Bedford Park

Bedford Park is a residential area in the northwest Bronx, south of Mosholu Parkway and next to the New York Botanical Garden, with Jerome Avenue and the Grand Concourse as its main north-south roads. Its housing is mostly five- and six-story apartment buildings: PLUTO data shows about 60% of its roughly 23,700 residential units in elevator buildings, 33% in walk-ups, and about 59% in buildings put up before 1940. Tracey Towers, two 41-story Mitchell-Lama towers designed by Paul Rudolph and completed in 1972, stand beside the Jerome Park Reservoir, most of which lies inside this area. Transit is strong: the B and D under the Grand Concourse and the 4 on the Jerome Avenue elevated, plus Metro-North's Harlem Line at Botanical Garden station, about 100 m past its eastern edge.

Bedford Park has 27,794 open HPD housing violations, 8,624 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 16,717 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 5th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
27,794
8,624 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
16,717
5,491 Class C · 3rd in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C8,624 · 31%Class B13,367 · 48%Class A5,803 · 21%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 hazardous5,491
  • Class B · hazardous7,639
  • Class A · non-hazardous3,360

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

Good to know

  • Subway: B and D at Bedford Park Blvd and Kingsbridge Rd; 4 at Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College and Kingsbridge Rd; Mosholu Pkwy (4) just outside
  • Metro-North Harlem Line: Botanical Garden station is about 100 m outside the boundary
  • Tracey Towers: two 41-story Mitchell-Lama buildings completed in 1972
  • About 59% of residential units are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Borders the New York Botanical Garden

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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

Tracey Towers, Metro-North station and street layout from Wikipedia. Housing figures computed from PLUTO 26v2 residential units, with lots assigned to this NTA through 2020 census tracts (NYC Planning tract-to-NTA codes); building type uses PLUTO building class (C = walk-up, D = elevator, A/B = one- and two-family). Subway stations placed by point-in-polygon test of MTA station coordinates against the 2020 NTA boundary (data.cityofnewyork.us 9nt8-h7nd); 'just outside' means within about 150 m of the edge. Re-verified 2026-10-12: recomputed every PLUTO 26v2 share from the raw lots (2020 tract-to-NTA codes from data.cityofnewyork.us 63ge-mke6) and re-ran the station point-in-polygon test against the 2020 NTA file. Botanical Garden Metro-North station is about 100 m outside the NTA (in the Bronx Park NTA) per MTA Rail Stations coordinates; most of the Jerome Park Reservoir lies inside this NTA. Tracey Towers details from Wikipedia (PLUTO lists its lot at 40 W Mosholu Pkwy S in this NTA).

Sources

  1. Bedford Park, Bronx (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (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. MTA Rail Stations (Metro-North and LIRR station coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · 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.