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Crown Heights (South)

Crown Heights (South) is the strip of central Brooklyn mainly between Eastern Parkway and Empire Boulevard, from Washington Avenue east to about Rochester Avenue, in Community District 9. City tax-lot data counts about 21,500 homes; about 45% are in elevator apartment buildings and about a third in walk-ups, and about three-quarters are in buildings dated before 1940. Eastern Parkway, the tree-lined boulevard designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, forms its northern edge. The 2, 3, 4 and 5 stop along the parkway, the 2 and 5 stop at President St-Medgar Evers College, and the Franklin Avenue Shuttle stops at Botanic Garden. Medgar Evers College and 770 Eastern Parkway are here.

Crown Heights (South) has 23,742 open HPD housing violations, 6,363 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 12,641 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 23rd most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
23,742
6,363 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
12,641
4,086 Class C · 4th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,363 · 27%Class B11,587 · 49%Class A5,792 · 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 hazardous4,086
  • Class B · hazardous5,831
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,444

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

Good to know

  • Stations inside: Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College, Nostrand Av, Kingston Av, Crown Heights-Utica Av, President St-Medgar Evers College, Botanic Garden (S)
  • Eastern Parkway, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, runs along the northern edge
  • Medgar Evers College (1650 Bedford Avenue) and 770 Eastern Parkway, the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, are inside the area
  • Small parks include Dr. Ronald McNair Park and Jackie Robinson Playground

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

Re-verified 2026-10-12: NTA polygon from NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd; housing shares recomputed from PLUTO 26v2 residential units (bldgclass A/B = one- and two-family, C = walk-up incl. co-ops, D = elevator incl. co-ops) joined by 2020 census tract (hm78-6dwm); pre-1940/2000+ use PLUTO yearbuilt, which is estimated for many older buildings. Stations re-placed by point-in-polygon on MTA 39hk-dx4f; parks and acreage from Parks Properties enfh-gkve; NYCHA from phvi-damg; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch. Corrected housing mix: elevator buildings are 45.3% of 21,532 units (walk-ups 32.0%); the earlier 'about a third elevator' undercounted elevator co-ops. Pre-1940 75.9% confirmed. All six listed stations inside the polygon. 1650 Bedford Ave and 770 Eastern Pkwy geocode inside. Brooklyn Museum and Ebbets Field Apartments omitted: they fall in neighboring NTAs.

Sources

  1. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), release 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Crown Heights, Brooklyn · Wikipedia (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.