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Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Midwood

Midwood, as the city maps it here, runs from about Avenue H south to Avenue P and Kings Highway, between Coney Island Avenue and Nostrand Avenue. PLUTO dates more than half of its building lots to the 1920s. One- and two-family houses fill many side streets and hold about 29% of homes, with bigger apartment buildings along Ocean Avenue. PLUTO counts about 19,800 homes, and roughly 48% are in elevator buildings. About 68% are in buildings from before 1940. The Q train runs through the middle on the Brighton line, with local stops at Avenue H, Avenue J and Avenue M. Kolbert Playground is the largest NYC Parks site inside the area.

Midwood has 12,624 open HPD housing violations, 2,735 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 5,760 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 37th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
12,624
2,735 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
5,760
1,746 Class C · 17th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,735 · 22%Class B6,227 · 49%Class A3,662 · 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 hazardous1,746
  • Class B · hazardous2,576
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,205

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

Good to know

  • Q train at Avenue H, Avenue J and Avenue M
  • More than half of building lots date from the 1920s (PLUTO)
  • About 48% of homes are in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • Kolbert Playground is the largest NYC Parks site inside the area

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: '1920s development' now stated from PLUTO (54% of lots built 1920-1929); removed unverifiable 'large houses on tree-lined streets' and replaced with the PLUTO one- and two-family share (29%). Kolbert Playground (1.58 acres) confirmed largest Parks property in polygon.

Sources

  1. Midwood, 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)
  4. 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.