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Greenpoint

Greenpoint is Brooklyn's northernmost neighborhood. It sits between Newtown Creek, the East River and McCarren Park, with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the southeast. The core is 19th-century rowhouses and walk-up buildings. Part of it is the Greenpoint Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1983. Since the 2005 waterfront rezoning, towers of up to about 40 stories have gone up along the East River, including Greenpoint Landing. PLUTO counts about 25,900 homes, and roughly 59% are in buildings from before 1940. The G train stops at Greenpoint Avenue and Nassau Avenue, and NYC Ferry's East River route stops at India Street. McGolrick Park, with its landmarked 1910 shelter pavilion, and WNYC Transmitter Park are local green spaces.

Greenpoint has 18,082 open HPD housing violations, 2,527 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,826 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 26th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
18,082
2,527 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,826
728 Class C · 38th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,527 · 14%Class B7,437 · 41%Class A8,118 · 45%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 hazardous728
  • Class B · hazardous806
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,537

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

Good to know

  • G train at Greenpoint Av and Nassau Av; NYC Ferry Greenpoint landing (East River route)
  • Greenpoint Historic District listed on the National Register in 1983
  • Waterfront towers of up to about 40 stories built since the 2005 rezoning
  • Msgr. McGolrick Park (9.13 acres) has a 1910 shelter pavilion by Helmle and Huberty

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. Confirmed: Greenpoint Historic District NR listing 1983 and May 2005 rezoning (Wikipedia); waterfront towers up to 41 floors built 2017-2023 (PLUTO); McGolrick Park 9.13 acres and 1910 Helmle and Huberty shelter pavilion, a city landmark (NYC Parks); Greenpoint landing on NYC Ferry's East River route.

Sources

  1. Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Msgr. McGolrick Park history · NYC Parks (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. NYC Ferry East River route · NYC Ferry (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (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.