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Fordham Heights

Fordham Heights is the part of the Fordham area just south of Fordham Road in the west Bronx, in Community District 5, with the Grand Concourse running through it. Fordham Road is the Bronx's longest retail strip and is run by a business improvement district. Housing is almost all older apartment buildings: PLUTO data counts about 11,400 residential units, roughly 48% in walk-ups and 47% in elevator buildings, with about 78% in buildings from before 1940. Transit is good: the B and D stop at Fordham Rd and 182-183 Sts under the Grand Concourse, the 4 stops at 183 St on Jerome Avenue, and the 4's Fordham Rd station sits just outside. Slattery Playground is the main city park inside its boundary.

Fordham Heights has 21,908 open HPD housing violations, 6,399 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 13,257 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 14th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
21,908
6,399 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
13,257
4,589 Class C · 7th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,399 · 29%Class B11,678 · 53%Class A3,831 · 17%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 hazardous4,589
  • Class B · hazardous6,349
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,241

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

Good to know

  • Subway: B and D at Fordham Rd and 182-183 Sts; 4 at 183 St; Fordham Rd (4) just outside
  • About 78% of residential units are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Fordham Road is the Bronx's longest retail district
  • Mostly five- and six-story apartment buildings
  • Slattery Playground is the largest Parks property inside

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

Fordham Road BID, community-district split and building heights from Wikipedia; Slattery Playground from NYC Parks Properties dataset (enfh-gkve). Housing figures computed from PLUTO 26v2 residential units, with lots assigned to this NTA through 2020 census tracts (NYC Planning tract-to-NTA codes); building type uses PLUTO building class (C = walk-up, D = elevator, A/B = one- and two-family). Subway stations placed by point-in-polygon test of MTA station coordinates against the 2020 NTA boundary (data.cityofnewyork.us 9nt8-h7nd); 'just outside' means within about 150 m of the edge. Re-verified 2026-10-12: recomputed every PLUTO 26v2 share from the raw lots (2020 tract-to-NTA codes from data.cityofnewyork.us 63ge-mke6) and re-ran the station point-in-polygon test against the 2020 NTA file. CDTA BX05 and Slattery Playground (largest Parks property inside) confirmed.

Sources

  1. Fordham, Bronx (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (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.