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Crotona Park East

Crotona Park East is a South Bronx neighborhood east of Crotona Park, roughly between the Cross Bronx Expressway, the Bronx River, East 167th Street and Crotona and Prospect avenues, with Southern Boulevard as its main street. Much of the older housing was lost to arson in past decades and rebuilt with subsidized townhouses and apartments. PLUTO data counts about 13,500 residential units: about 42% in elevator buildings, 36% in walk-ups and 9% in one- and two-family houses, with about 36% in buildings from 2000 or later. The 2 and 5 trains stop at Freeman St and 174 St, and the 6 at Whitlock Av sits just outside. Starlight Park and Concrete Plant Park line the Bronx River.

Crotona Park East has 18,739 open HPD housing violations, 4,812 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 8,645 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 19th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
18,739
4,812 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
8,645
2,742 Class C · 19th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C4,812 · 26%Class B9,384 · 50%Class A4,543 · 24%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 hazardous2,742
  • Class B · hazardous3,914
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,756

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

Good to know

  • Subway: 2 and 5 at Freeman St and 174 St; Whitlock Av (6) just outside
  • About 36% of residential units are in buildings from 2000 or later (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Starlight Park and Concrete Plant Park run along the Bronx River
  • Southern Boulevard is the main thoroughfare
  • Next to, but separate from, Crotona Park

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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

Boundaries, history and Starlight Park from Wikipedia; Concrete Plant Park confirmed in NYC Parks Properties dataset (enfh-gkve). 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. Starlight Park and Concrete Plant Park confirmed inside the NTA via NYC Parks polygons; boundaries and arson history confirmed in Wikipedia.

Sources

  1. Crotona Park East, 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)

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.