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East Flatbush (Erasmus)

Erasmus is the western end of East Flatbush, east of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues and roughly west of New York and Brooklyn Avenues, running from near Parkside Avenue south to Foster Avenue, in Community District 17. The housing is mostly apartments: city tax-lot data counts about 21,500 homes, about 41% in elevator buildings and 35% in walk-ups, with about 63% in buildings dated before 1940. The 2 and 5 trains stop at Church Av and Beverly Rd on the Nostrand Avenue Line, with Winthrop St and Newkirk Av-Little Haiti on the edge. SUNY Downstate's campus and the Flatbush African Burial Ground site are here.

East Flatbush (Erasmus) has 38,277 open HPD housing violations, 8,471 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 15,277 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 8th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
38,277
8,471 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
15,277
4,570 Class C · 3rd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C8,471 · 22%Class B20,413 · 53%Class A9,393 · 25%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 hazardous4,570
  • Class B · hazardous7,173
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,984

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

Good to know

  • 2 and 5 stations inside: Church Av and Beverly Rd
  • Erasmus Hall High School traces its founding to 1786
  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center (450 Clarkson Avenue) is inside the area
  • About 41% of homes are in elevator buildings and 35% in walk-ups

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 to 41.3% elevator / 35.2% walk-up of 21,532 units (earlier 31%/32% excluded co-op and store-front buildings); pre-1940 63.2% confirmed. Church Av and Beverly Rd inside; Winthrop St and Newkirk Av on the edge. Erasmus Hall 1786 founding from its article; 911 Flatbush Ave and 450 Clarkson Ave geocode inside; Flatbush African Burial Ground is a Parks property fully inside. Kings County Hospital omitted (neighboring NTA).

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. Erasmus Hall High School · 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.