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Morrisania

Morrisania is in the south-central Bronx, with Crotona Park to the north and Melrose, Longwood and Claremont Village around it. Third Avenue and Boston Road are main streets. The housing is mostly apartment buildings: in city tax-lot data, about 46% of homes are in elevator buildings and about a third in walk-ups, and roughly a third of units are in buildings from before 1940. NYCHA developments such as Forest Houses are part of the mix. No subway station sits inside the area; the 2 and 5 stop at Prospect Avenue just beyond its edge, and buses including the Bx6, Bx15, Bx21 and Bx41 run through. The Morris High School Historic District is here.

Morrisania has 22,494 open HPD housing violations, 5,883 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 10,837 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 12th most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
22,494
5,883 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
10,837
3,623 Class C · 12th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C5,883 · 26%Class B11,171 · 50%Class A5,440 · 24%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 hazardous3,623
  • Class B · hazardous4,738
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,154

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

Good to know

  • No subway station inside the area; 2 and 5 trains stop at Prospect Avenue just outside
  • About 46% of homes are in elevator buildings and about 34% in walk-ups (PLUTO)
  • Morris High School Historic District lies within the area
  • Crotona Park lies just to the north
  • Part of Bronx Community District 3

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

Station locations checked by placing MTA Subway Stations coordinates inside the 2020 NTA boundary; housing-stock shares computed from PLUTO residential units by building class and year built for lots inside the NTA (rounded). Bus routes, Forest Houses and Community District 3 from Wikipedia; Forest Houses confirmed as NYCHA-owned lots on Trinity Avenue in PLUTO. St. Ann's Church (often listed under Morrisania) falls inside the Mott Haven-Port Morris NTA, so it is not claimed here. Fact-check 2026-10-12: Re-checked boundaries, bus routes and Forest Houses on Wikipedia; housing shares and the Prospect Av station position (about 80 m outside) re-computed.

Sources

  1. Morrisania, Bronx · 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. MTA Subway Stations dataset · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via Open NY (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.