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Chinatown & Two Bridges

This area covers Manhattan's Chinatown south of Canal Street, the blocks east of the Bowery, and the Two Bridges neighborhood, running from the Baxter Street area east to the East River near the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. Housing ranges from old tenement walk-ups to high-rises, including the 44-story Confucius Plaza Mitchell-Lama co-op, Knickerbocker Village, and NYCHA's Alfred E. Smith, Rutgers and LaGuardia Houses. The F train stops at East Broadway, and the Canal Street station complex sits just to the west. Columbus Park, built in 1897 on the site of the old Five Points, is the area's main park.

Chinatown & Two Bridges has 9,735 open HPD housing violations, 2,110 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,859 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 16th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
9,735
2,110 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,859
548 Class C · 21st in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,110 · 22%Class B4,552 · 47%Class A3,073 · 32%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous548
  • Class B · hazardous635
  • Class A · non-hazardous527

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • F train at East Broadway; Canal Street station complex just west
  • Columbus Park lies between Baxter and Mulberry Streets at Bayard Street
  • NYCHA's Smith, Rutgers and LaGuardia Houses are in Two Bridges
  • Confucius Plaza is a 762-apartment Mitchell-Lama co-op built in 1975
  • Part of Manhattan Community District 3

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

Station placement checked by point-in-polygon of MTA Subway Stations coordinates (daytime routes) against the 2020 NTA polygon; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch and tested against the same polygons. East Broadway (F) is the only station inside MN0301; Canal St stations fall in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square. Corrected the extent: the NTA also reaches north of Canal east of the Bowery (100 Hester St, 21 Allen St geocode inside). Columbus Park bounds from Parks Properties ('Baxter St, Mulberry St, Bayard St'); dropped unverified Worth Street. Confucius Plaza size/date and Mitchell-Lama status from Wikipedia. Knickerbocker Village (10 Monroe St), Smith, Rutgers and LaGuardia Houses geocode inside.

Sources

  1. Chinatown, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Two Bridges, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Columbus Park (Manhattan) (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Confucius Plaza (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  6. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Open NY) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  7. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.