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East New York (City Line)

City Line is the eastern edge of East New York, from Fountain Avenue to the Queens border and from Atlantic Avenue south to Flatlands Avenue, plus a section of Spring Creek Park reaching toward the Belt Parkway, in Community District 5. Its name comes from its spot at the edge of the old City of Brooklyn. Liberty Avenue is the main shopping street. City tax-lot data counts about 13,900 homes, and about 31% are in elevator buildings, largely NYCHA's Cypress Hills Houses and Pink Houses; the rest are mostly rowhouses and small walk-ups. The A and C stop at Euclid Av, and the A continues to Grant Av. Spring Creek Park is the largest park.

East New York (City Line) has 25,137 open HPD housing violations, 4,860 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 4,305 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 21st most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
25,137
4,860 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
4,305
1,258 Class C · 23rd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C4,860 · 19%Class B13,759 · 55%Class A6,518 · 26%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 hazardous1,258
  • Class B · hazardous1,648
  • Class A · non-hazardous936

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

Good to know

  • Subway: A and C at Euclid Av; A at Grant Av
  • NYCHA Cypress Hills Houses (fifteen 7-story buildings) and Louis H. Pink Houses (twenty-two 8-story buildings)
  • Liberty Avenue is the main commercial strip
  • Spring Creek Park (about 55 acres), City Line Park (about 6 acres) and Cypress Hills 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 'City Line Park is the largest park': the 55-acre Spring Creek Park record (Fountain Ave to Flatlands Ave and the Belt Pkwy) lies 92% inside this NTA; City Line Park is 6.05 ac. Elevator share corrected to 30.7% of 13,914 units (was 28%). Euclid Av and Grant Av inside. NYCHA building counts and the name origin from the East New York article; Cypress Hills and Pink 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. East New York, 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.