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Coney Island & Sea Gate

This area covers the western end of the Coney Island peninsula in southern Brooklyn (Community District 13), including the amusement district and Sea Gate, a private gated community west of West 37th Street with mostly single-family homes. Most residents live in large buildings: about 80% of homes are in buildings with 100 or more units, including nine NYCHA developments such as the Coney Island, O'Dwyer Gardens and Surfside Gardens Houses. Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is the terminal for the D, F, N and Q trains, with more stops at West 8th Street–NY Aquarium and Neptune Avenue. The beach and Riegelmann Boardwalk, Asser Levy Park and Kaiser Park are here.

Coney Island & Sea Gate has 11,576 open HPD housing violations, 2,404 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,453 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 41st most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
11,576
2,404 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,453
1,011 Class C · 29th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,404 · 21%Class B5,394 · 47%Class A3,778 · 33%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 hazardous1,011
  • Class B · hazardous1,441
  • Class A · non-hazardous804

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

Good to know

  • Subway terminal: Coney Island–Stillwell Av (D, F, N, Q)
  • 9 NYCHA developments inside the NTA
  • Sea Gate is a private gated community west of West 37th Street
  • Wonder Wheel (opened 1920) and Riegelmann Boardwalk (opened 1923)

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. Coney Island (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. NYCHA Public Housing Developments (map data) · New York City Housing Authority via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.