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Bensonhurst

Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn (Community District 11), roughly between 14th Avenue, 60th Street, McDonald Avenue and 86th Street. Housing is mostly attached and semi-detached houses plus small apartment buildings: about 66% of residential lots are one- or two-family homes and 85% of residential lots date from before 1940. Three subway lines serve it. The D runs on the elevated West End Line (62nd, 71st and 79th Streets, 18th and 20th Avenues), the N on the Sea Beach Line (New Utrecht Avenue, 18th and 20th Avenues, Bay Parkway), and the F along McDonald Avenue at the eastern edge. Seth Low Playground and Bealin Square is the largest park.

Bensonhurst has 27,180 open HPD housing violations, 4,320 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 7,525 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 16th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
27,180
4,320 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
7,525
1,588 Class C · 19th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C4,320 · 16%Class B11,447 · 42%Class A11,413 · 42%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 hazardous1,588
  • Class B · hazardous2,283
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,619

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

Good to know

  • D train: 62 St, 71 St, 79 St, 18 Av, 20 Av
  • N train: New Utrecht Av, 18 Av, 20 Av, Bay Pkwy
  • About 66% of residential lots are one- or two-family homes (PLUTO)
  • Free transfer between the D at 62 St and the N at New Utrecht Av

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. Bensonhurst, 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.