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Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO & Boerum Hill

This area runs from the East River at DUMBO south through Downtown Brooklyn's civic and office core to the rowhouse blocks of Boerum Hill, between roughly Court Street and Flatbush Avenue. It is Brooklyn's main business district and one of its fastest-built residential areas: city tax-lot data counts about 28,500 homes, and about 62% are in buildings dated 2000 or later, many of them towers built after the 2004 rezoning. DUMBO's converted industrial lofts and Boerum Hill's 19th-century rowhouses are protected historic districts. Nine subway lines stop inside, at stations including Jay St-MetroTech, Borough Hall and DeKalb Av. Cadman Plaza Park and Columbus Park lead to Borough Hall.

Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO & Boerum Hill has 7,018 open HPD housing violations, 976 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,795 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 47th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
7,018
976 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,795
374 Class C · 45th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C976 · 14%Class B3,190 · 45%Class A2,852 · 41%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 hazardous374
  • Class B · hazardous496
  • Class A · non-hazardous682

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

Good to know

  • Stations inside include Jay St-MetroTech (A, C, F, R), Borough Hall (2, 3), DeKalb Av (B, Q, R), Hoyt-Schermerhorn (A, C, G), High St (A, C) and York St (F)
  • DUMBO became a city historic district in 2007; Boerum Hill in 1973
  • Cadman Plaza Park covers about 10 acres
  • NYCHA's Farragut Houses, in the DUMBO and Vinegar Hill section, are inside this area

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 'more than a dozen subway lines': stations inside the polygon serve nine lines (2, 3, A, C, F, G, R, B, Q); 4/5 at Borough Hall and D/N at Atlantic Av sit on the edge. Confirmed 28,532 units and 62.0% built 2000+; DUMBO HD 2007 and Boerum Hill HD 1973; 2004 rezoning; Cadman Plaza Park 10.38 ac; Farragut Houses fully inside.

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. Dumbo, Brooklyn · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Boerum Hill, Brooklyn · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. Downtown Brooklyn · Wikipedia (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.