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Belmont

Belmont is a mostly residential area of the central Bronx, roughly between Fordham Road, Bronx Park, East 181st Street and Third Avenue. It is known as the Bronx's Little Italy, centered on Arthur Avenue and its food shops and the Arthur Avenue Retail Market. The housing stock is mostly older walk-ups: in PLUTO data about 61% of its roughly 13,400 residential units are in walk-up buildings and about 69% are in buildings from before 1940. Landmarks include Our Lady of Mount Carmel church (1906) and the Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center. There is no subway stop inside the area; the nearest is the B and D at Fordham Road, and many bus routes, including the Bx12 Select Bus Service, cross it.

Belmont has 29,022 open HPD housing violations, 7,957 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 16,372 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 4th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
29,022
7,957 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
16,372
5,431 Class C · 4th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C7,957 · 27%Class B14,799 · 51%Class A6,266 · 22%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 hazardous5,431
  • Class B · hazardous7,844
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,785

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

Good to know

  • Arthur Avenue is the center of the Bronx's Little Italy
  • About 61% of residential units are in walk-up buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • No subway station inside; nearest are the B and D at 182-183 Sts and Fordham Rd, about 400 m away
  • Metro-North's Fordham station (Harlem and New Haven lines) sits at its northwest corner
  • Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden lie along its eastern edge

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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

Arthur Avenue, church, library, bus and Metro-North details from Wikipedia. Station distances measured from MTA coordinates to the NTA boundary. 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. Fordham Metro-North station falls inside the NTA polygon at its northwest corner per MTA Rail Stations coordinates. Belmont boundaries, church date, library and Bx12 SBS confirmed in Wikipedia.

Sources

  1. Belmont, 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)

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.