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Kensington

Kensington lies south of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. Its rough edges are Caton Avenue to the north, Coney Island Avenue to the east, the Dahill Road and McDonald Avenue area to the west, and Foster Avenue or Avenue F to the south. Ocean Parkway runs through the middle. The housing mixes brick rowhouses, detached Victorian houses and many pre-war apartment buildings. Six-story elevator buildings and co-ops line Ocean Parkway. PLUTO data puts about 47% of its roughly 14,400 homes in elevator buildings. The F and G trains stop at Church Avenue, and the F continues on an elevated line to Ditmas Avenue. The corner of McDonald and Church Avenues was co-named Little Bangladesh in 2022.

Kensington has 15,294 open HPD housing violations, 2,884 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 4,832 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 32nd most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
15,294
2,884 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
4,832
1,302 Class C · 22nd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,884 · 19%Class B7,081 · 46%Class A5,329 · 35%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 hazardous1,302
  • Class B · hazardous1,978
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,164

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

Good to know

  • F and G trains at Church Av; F train at Ditmas Av (elevated)
  • Ocean Parkway is lined with pre-war and postwar apartment houses
  • About 47% of homes are in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • McDonald and Church Avenues co-named Little Bangladesh in October 2022

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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. Confirmed: Little Bangladesh co-naming of McDonald and Church Avenues in October 2022 (Wikipedia); most Ocean Parkway elevator buildings in the area are 6 floors (PLUTO). No changes needed.

Sources

  1. Kensington, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (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)

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.