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East Flatbush (Rugby)

Rugby is the north-central part of East Flatbush, from East New York Avenue south toward Clarendon Road, roughly between Albany and Ralph Avenues, in Community District 17. The name was chosen by developers in the 1890s. Its roughly 14,100 homes are split between one- and two-family houses (about 45%) and walk-up buildings (about 41%), and about 70% are in buildings dated before 1940. No subway station is inside or right on the edge; buses such as the B46 on Utica Avenue connect to the 3 and 4 at Crown Heights-Utica Av. The Wyckoff House, New York City Landmark No. 1, stands in Fidler-Wyckoff House Park.

East Flatbush (Rugby) has 30,500 open HPD housing violations, 6,228 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 7,683 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 13th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
30,500
6,228 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
7,683
2,313 Class C · 12th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,228 · 20%Class B14,634 · 48%Class A9,638 · 32%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 hazardous2,313
  • Class B · hazardous2,926
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,738

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

Good to know

  • Wyckoff House (5816 Clarendon Road), dating to the mid-1600s, was designated New York City landmark No. 1 in 1965
  • No subway station inside the area
  • Rugby branch library, 1000 Utica Avenue, opened in 1957
  • Harry Maze Playground and Tilden Playground

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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. Boundary wording fixed (north edge is East New York Avenue; Clarkson Ave reference removed). Walk-up share corrected to 41.5% of 14,135 units (was 39%); one-/two-family 45.5%, pre-1940 70.0% confirmed. No MTA station inside or near. Wyckoff House: the article gives c.1652 (dendrochronology) and an earlier estimate, so dated 'mid-1600s'; LPC designation Oct 14, 1965, NYCL 0001; 5816 Clarendon Rd geocodes inside. Rugby library 1957 from the East Flatbush article. B46 is a Utica Avenue route.

Sources

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

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“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.