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Gravesend West

Gravesend West covers the stretch between roughly 23rd Avenue and McDonald Avenue, from about Avenue P and Kings Highway south to Shore Parkway. Its housing is mostly older and low-rise. PLUTO data shows about 66% of its roughly 20,600 homes in buildings recorded as built before 1940. About a third of the homes are in one- and two-family houses, and many more are in walk-up apartment buildings. Several towers of 11 to 32 floors went up on Cropsey Avenue between 2019 and 2023. The N stops at Kings Highway and Avenue U, and the D stops at 25th Avenue and Bay Parkway. F stations along McDonald Avenue sit on its eastern edge. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park is its largest park.

Gravesend West has 12,928 open HPD housing violations, 2,086 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,411 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 36th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
12,928
2,086 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,411
686 Class C · 41st in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,086 · 16%Class B5,080 · 39%Class A5,762 · 45%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 hazardous686
  • Class B · hazardous914
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,274

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

Good to know

  • N train at Kings Hwy and Avenue U; D train at 25 Av and Bay Pkwy
  • F train stations line McDonald Avenue on the eastern edge
  • About two-thirds of homes are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO)
  • Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park (about 3.2 acres) is the largest park

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-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: western edge described as about 23rd Avenue (PLUTO lots on 23rd-26th Avenues and 78th-86th Streets fall inside); 'a few newer towers on Cropsey' made specific from PLUTO (2224, 2230, 2286 Cropsey, built 2019-2023, 11-32 floors). Scarangella Park acreage and 'largest' confirmed in Parks Properties.

Sources

  1. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · 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. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Parks Properties · NYC Parks 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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.