roofy
Post

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights is a compact area between Flatbush Avenue and roughly Washington and Classon Avenues, running from Atlantic Avenue south to Eastern Parkway. Most of the interior is Italianate and Neo-Grec brownstone rowhouses from the late 1800s, protected by the Prospect Heights Historic District (city-designated in 2009). Larger apartment buildings line Eastern Parkway and Plaza Street East. Near Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Park buildings such as 535 Carlton and 550 Vanderbilt have added hundreds of apartments since 2015. PLUTO counts about 12,700 homes. The B and Q stop at Seventh Avenue, and the 2 and 3 run along the Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway edges. The Central Library, Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden line the south side of Eastern Parkway.

Prospect Heights has 12,045 open HPD housing violations, 2,217 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,726 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 40th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

Check a building in Brooklyn

Open HPD violations
12,045
2,217 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,726
983 Class C · 31st in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,217 · 18%Class B5,599 · 46%Class A4,229 · 35%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous983
  • Class B · hazardous1,414
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,026

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 16, 2026

Good to know

  • B and Q at 7 Av; 2 and 3 at Bergen St, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum on the edges
  • Prospect Heights Historic District designated by the city in 2009
  • Pacific Park buildings near Atlantic Avenue added large new apartment buildings
  • Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden are across Eastern Parkway

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.

More neighborhoods in Brooklyn

Bath BeachBay RidgeBedford-Stuyvesant EastBedford-Stuyvesant WestBensonhurstBorough ParkBrighton BeachBrooklyn HeightsBrownsvilleBushwick EastBushwick WestCanarsieCarroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus & Red HookClinton HillConey Island & Sea GateCrown Heights (North)Crown Heights (South)Cypress HillsDowntown Brooklyn, DUMBO & Boerum HillDyker HeightsEast Flatbush (Erasmus)East Flatbush (Farragut)East Flatbush (Remsen Village)East Flatbush (Rugby)East New York (City Line)East New York (New Lots)East New York (North)East WilliamsburgFlatbushFlatbush West, Ditmas Park & ParkvilleFlatlandsFort GreeneGravesend (East) & HomecrestGravesend SouthGravesend WestGreenpointKensingtonMadisonMapleton and Midwood WestMarine Park, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach
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: PLUTO shows elevator-building units concentrated on Eastern Parkway and Plaza Street East, not Lincoln Place. Confirmed: 535 Carlton and 550 Vanderbilt (built 2015 per PLUTO, about 300 units each) are inside the NTA; historic district designated June 2009 (Wikipedia); 7 Av (B/Q) inside, 2/3 stations just outside on the edges; Brooklyn Museum and Central Library sit in the Prospect Park NTA across Eastern Parkway.

Sources

  1. Prospect Heights, 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)

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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.