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Neighborhood · Manhattan

Midtown and Times Square

This is the core of Midtown Manhattan, running from the mid-30s north to 59th Street, between Eighth Avenue and roughly Madison Avenue. It includes Times Square, the Broadway Theater District, Bryant Park, the main New York Public Library and Rockefeller Center. The area is mainly commercial, with office towers, hotels and theaters, and some apartment buildings. Times Square–42nd Street is served by the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W and the 42nd Street Shuttle, and connects to the A, C and E at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal; together they rank as the busiest stations in the subway. Bryant Park (9.6 acres), between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 40th and 42nd Streets, is the largest park here.

Midtown and Times Square has 4,065 open HPD housing violations, 556 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 903 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 28th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
4,065
556 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
903
193 Class C · 30th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C556 · 14%Class B1,932 · 48%Class A1,577 · 39%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 hazardous193
  • Class B · hazardous285
  • Class A · non-hazardous306

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

Good to know

  • Times Square–42nd Street serves the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W and S
  • Broadway plazas from 42nd to 47th Street were made permanent in 2010
  • Bryant Park sits beside the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
  • B, D, F and M trains stop at 42nd St–Bryant Park and 47–50th Sts–Rockefeller Center

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

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). West edge is Eighth Avenue (Hell's Kitchen lies west); Park Avenue blocks belong to East Midtown, so the east edge is about Madison. Added the Port Authority A/C/E connection and the busiest-station ranking per Wikipedia (Times Square). Plaza wording corrected: Bloomberg announced on Feb 11, 2010 that the 42nd–47th St plazas would be permanent. Bryant Park acreage (9.603) and streets from the NYC Parks Properties dataset. NYC Parks Bryant Park page replaced with the dataset.

Sources

  1. Times Square (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · 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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.