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Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach and Gerritsen Beach

This waterfront area runs along southern Brooklyn's shore. Sheepshead Bay sits around Emmons Avenue and the bay. Manhattan Beach is a peninsula with streets named A to P, from Amherst to Pembroke, and Kingsborough Community College at its eastern tip. Gerritsen Beach began as a 1920s bungalow colony. The housing mixes one- and two-family houses with six-story apartment buildings and co-ops, plus NYCHA's Sheepshead Bay and Nostrand Houses. The B and Q stop at Sheepshead Bay and the Q at Neck Road. Manhattan Beach Park opened in 1955 on land that had been a federal Coast Guard and Maritime training station.

Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach and Gerritsen Beach has 10,937 open HPD housing violations, 1,457 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,512 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 42nd most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
10,937
1,457 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,512
852 Class C · 36th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,457 · 13%Class B5,218 · 48%Class A4,262 · 39%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 hazardous852
  • Class B · hazardous1,418
  • Class A · non-hazardous832

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

Good to know

  • B and Q at Sheepshead Bay; Q at Neck Rd
  • Manhattan Beach Park opened in 1955 on a former maritime training station site
  • Kingsborough Community College occupies the eastern tip of Manhattan Beach
  • Gerritsen Beach has Brooklyn's last volunteer fire department

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: Manhattan Beach Park was built on a former Coast Guard and Maritime Training Station, not a hotel site (NYC Parks). Confirmed: streets Amherst to Pembroke (NYC Parks); NYCHA Sheepshead Bay and Nostrand Houses lots inside the polygon (PLUTO, NYCHA Data Book); last volunteer fire department in Brooklyn and 1920s bungalows (Wikipedia); B/Q at Sheepshead Bay and Q at Neck Rd inside.

Sources

  1. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Manhattan Beach Park history · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. NYCHA Development Data Book · New York City Housing Authority via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  6. MTA Subway Stations · 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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.