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Longwood

Longwood is a South Bronx neighborhood roughly between East 167th Street, the Bronx River and Bruckner Expressway, East 149th Street and St. Anns Avenue, with Southern Boulevard as its main street. Its housing is mostly pre-war five- and six-story apartment buildings, along with newer apartments and row houses built since the 1990s. PLUTO data counts about 16,100 residential units, about 40% in walk-ups and 39% in elevator buildings, with about 59% from before 1940 and 28% from 2000 or later. The landmarked Longwood Historic District has semi-detached row houses on Beck, Kelly and Dawson streets and Hewitt Place. Transit is dense: the 6 stops at E 149 St, Longwood Av, Hunts Point Av and Whitlock Av, and the 2 and 5 stop at Intervale Av and Simpson St.

Longwood has 24,563 open HPD housing violations, 6,003 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 11,272 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 8th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
24,563
6,003 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
11,272
3,602 Class C · 13th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,003 · 24%Class B11,984 · 49%Class A6,576 · 27%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 hazardous3,602
  • Class B · hazardous5,017
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,364

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

Good to know

  • Subway: 6 at E 149 St, Longwood Av, Hunts Point Av and Whitlock Av; 2 and 5 at Intervale Av and Simpson St
  • Longwood Historic District: landmarked row houses south of Longwood Avenue
  • About 59% of residential units are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • Prospect Av (2, 5) sits just outside the boundary
  • Bill Rainey Park is the largest Parks property inside

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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

Boundaries, housing history and historic district from Wikipedia; Bill Rainey Park 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. Reworded the 6 line: Whitlock Av is on Westchester Avenue, not Southern Boulevard. Prospect Av (2, 5) measured 10 m outside.

Sources

  1. Longwood, 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.