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Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Madison

Madison is the residential area between Midwood and Marine Park. It runs from about Kings Highway and Avenue P south to Avenue U and Avenue V, and from the Brighton subway line near East 15th Street east to Nostrand and Gerritsen Avenues. It is mostly low-rise. PLUTO data puts about 41% of its roughly 16,000 homes in one- and two-family houses. Six-story elevator apartment buildings stand along Ocean Avenue, Nostrand Avenue and Kings Highway. The B and Q trains stop at Kings Highway, and the Q also stops at Avenue U, both on the western edge. Bus routes such as the B2, B31 and B82 cross the area. Marine Park, Brooklyn's largest park, is just to the east.

Madison has 6,820 open HPD housing violations, 1,231 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,128 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 48th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
6,820
1,231 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,128
868 Class C · 34th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,231 · 18%Class B3,592 · 53%Class A1,997 · 29%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 hazardous868
  • Class B · hazardous1,429
  • Class A · non-hazardous678

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

Good to know

  • B and Q trains at Kings Hwy; Q train at Avenue U
  • About 41% of homes are in one- and two-family houses (PLUTO)
  • Kelly Park Playground and Galapo Playground are local NYC Parks sites
  • Borders Marine Park, Brooklyn's largest park (798 acres)

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 is the Brighton line around East 15th Street, not Ocean Avenue (Ocean Avenue runs through the middle). Marine Park acreage corrected to NYC Parks' 798 acres; 'Brooklyn's largest park' from NYC Parks. Bus routes B2/B31/B82 confirmed stopping inside the NTA in MTA GTFS.

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. Marine Park · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Brooklyn bus GTFS schedule data · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 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.