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Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Wingate

This area runs east from Prospect Park and Ocean Avenue, roughly between Empire Boulevard and Clarkson Avenue. It covers Prospect Lefferts Gardens and continues east toward Wingate and Kings County Hospital. Lefferts Manor, laid out in 1893, still has a deed covenant requiring single-family brick or stone houses; it is in a city historic district designated in 1979. Around it are many large pre-war apartment buildings. PLUTO data puts about half of the area's roughly 21,000 homes in elevator buildings. The B, Q and S trains stop at Prospect Park, the Q at Parkside Avenue, and the 2 and 5 at Sterling Street and Winthrop Street. Wingate Park opened in 1957 beside the George W. Wingate High School building.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Wingate has 28,371 open HPD housing violations, 6,581 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 12,768 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 15th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
28,371
6,581 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
12,768
3,871 Class C · 5th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C6,581 · 23%Class B14,273 · 50%Class A7,517 · 26%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 hazardous3,871
  • Class B · hazardous5,836
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,630

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

Good to know

  • B, Q and S at Prospect Park; Q at Parkside Av; 2 and 5 at Sterling St and Winthrop St
  • Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District, including Lefferts Manor, designated in 1979
  • About half of homes are in elevator buildings (PLUTO)
  • Wingate Park (about 5.9 acres) opened in 1957; the area was once called Pigtown

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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: the 1979 city designation is the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District (covering Lefferts Manor), reworded. Confirmed: 1893 lots and surviving single-family covenant (Wikipedia); Wingate Park opened 1957, 5.89 acres, Pigtown name (NYC Parks); Kings County Hospital (451 Clarkson Ave) geocodes inside the NTA.

Sources

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Wingate Park history · NYC Parks (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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.