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Gravesend South

Gravesend South is the southern edge of old Gravesend. It runs from about Avenue V and Avenue X down to Shore Parkway and Coney Island Creek, between the Bay 40s streets and the blocks just east of Ocean Parkway. City Planning's PLUTO data puts about 54% of its roughly 11,700 homes in elevator buildings. The biggest complex is NYCHA's Marlboro Houses, 28 residential buildings completed in 1958 between Avenue V, Avenue X, Stillwell Avenue and 86th Street. One- and two-family houses and walk-ups fill many side streets. The D train stops at Bay 50th Street and the F at Avenue X, and the N's 86th Street station sits on the edge. Calvert Vaux Park is just to the southwest, along Coney Island Creek.

Gravesend South has 4,170 open HPD housing violations, 443 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,218 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 52nd most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
4,170
443 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,218
252 Class C · 50th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C443 · 11%Class B1,820 · 44%Class A1,907 · 46%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous252
  • Class B · hazardous390
  • Class A · non-hazardous388

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

Good to know

  • D train at Bay 50 St; F train at Avenue X; N at 86 St on the edge
  • NYCHA's Marlboro Houses (28 residential buildings, completed 1958) are inside the area
  • About 54% of homes are in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • Calvert Vaux Park lies just to the southwest

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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-checked 2026-10-12: subway stations re-tested against the 2020 NTA polygon; PLUTO home counts and shares recomputed from residential units inside the polygon and matched; park acreages from the NYC Parks Properties dataset. Boundaries are approximate. Fixed: northern edge reaches Avenue V (Marlboro Houses sit between Avenues V and X), so 'from Avenue X' was wrong; Marlboro building count and 1958 completion confirmed in the NYCHA Development Data Book; removed unsourced comparison with the rest of Gravesend. Replaced Wikipedia source with NYCHA and NTA datasets.

Sources

  1. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. NYCHA Development Data Book · New York City Housing Authority via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning via 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 14, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.