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Marine Park, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach

This southeast Brooklyn area takes in the houses around Marine Park plus the Mill Basin peninsula and Bergen Beach on Jamaica Bay. PLUTO data puts about 78% of its roughly 16,900 homes in one- and two-family houses. NYC Parks notes that Mill Basin grew with frame houses on 20-by-100-foot lots in the 1920s, then brick houses and two-story co-ops in the 1950s. No subway stations are in the area, so residents rely on buses such as the B3, B41, B46 and B100, and on express buses such as the BM1 and BM4. Marine Park, Brooklyn's largest park at 798 acres, is next door. Kings Plaza mall is at Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U.

Marine Park, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach has 6,558 open HPD housing violations, 552 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 897 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 49th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
6,558
552 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
897
115 Class C · 53rd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C552 · 8%Class B2,692 · 41%Class A3,314 · 51%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 hazardous115
  • Class B · hazardous207
  • Class A · non-hazardous253

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

Good to know

  • No subway stations; served by buses including the B3, B41, B46, B100 and BM1 express
  • About 78% of homes are in one- and two-family houses (PLUTO)
  • Hendrick I. Lott House (1800, with a 1720 section) is a city landmark run by NYC Parks
  • Lindower Park (6.7 acres) is the only park on the Mill Basin peninsula proper

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: removed unverified housing descriptions (brick rowhouses, waterfront houses) and replaced with NYC Parks' Lindower Park history; Marine Park acreage corrected to 798. Confirmed: no subway stations in polygon; B3/B41/B46 (NYCT GTFS) and B100/BM1/BM4 (MTA Bus GTFS) stop inside; Lott House dates and landmark status (NYC Parks); Kings Plaza location and Lindower 'only park on the peninsula proper' (Wikipedia).

Sources

  1. Mill Basin, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Hendrick I. Lott House · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Lindower Park history · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. Marine Park · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  6. MTA Brooklyn bus GTFS schedule data · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  7. MTA Bus Company GTFS schedule data · 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.