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Neighborhood · Manhattan

Financial District & Battery Park City

This area covers the southern tip of Manhattan below Tribeca and the Civic Center, including the Financial District, the World Trade Center site, South Street Seaport and Battery Park City. Housing is almost all high-rise: nearly 200 Financial District buildings were converted to residential use from 2013 to 2021, and Battery Park City is a 92-acre landfill neighborhood whose northern section is made up of 20- to 45-story buildings. Most subway lines reach the area, including the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z, R and W. The Staten Island Ferry leaves from Whitehall Terminal, and Rockefeller Park and Teardrop Park are in Battery Park City.

Financial District & Battery Park City has 1,333 open HPD housing violations, 282 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 493 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 31st most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
1,333
282 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
493
209 Class C · 29th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C282 · 21%Class B534 · 40%Class A517 · 39%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 hazardous209
  • Class B · hazardous140
  • Class A · non-hazardous105

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

Good to know

  • Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall Terminal; NYC Ferry at Pier 11/Wall Street and Battery Park City
  • Battery Park City: 92 acres, 36 of them parkland
  • Nearly 200 buildings converted to residential use from 2013 to 2021
  • New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall National Memorial are here
  • Part of Manhattan Community District 1

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

Station placement checked by point-in-polygon of MTA Subway Stations coordinates (daytime routes) against the 2020 NTA polygon; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch and tested against the same polygons. Stations inside MN0101 serve the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z, R and W; removed E (World Trade Center E station falls in Tribeca-Civic Center) and N (no daytime N stop). Corrected northern edge: Chambers St stations and 100 Chambers St are in Tribeca-Civic Center. Corrected Battery Park City heights (20-45 stories applies to the northern section) and conversion wording ('buildings', not 'office buildings'), per Wikipedia. Whitehall Terminal, Rockefeller and Teardrop parks, 11 Wall St geocode inside; The Battery is its own NTA.

Sources

  1. Financial District, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Battery Park City (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Open NY) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (NYC Open Data) (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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.