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South Williamsburg

South Williamsburg is the southern part of Williamsburg, roughly south of Division Avenue and Broadway down toward Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Most of it is old walk-up buildings, rowhouses and mid-rise apartment houses, along with several large postwar housing developments of up to about 25 stories. That mix shows in PLUTO data: about a third of its roughly 12,700 homes are in buildings of seven or more floors, and only about 4% are in one- and two-family houses. The J and M stop at Hewes Street and the J, M and Z at Marcy Avenue on the elevated Broadway line. The G stops at Flushing Avenue.

South Williamsburg has 16,825 open HPD housing violations, 1,269 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,168 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 28th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
16,825
1,269 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
2,168
185 Class C · 51st in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,269 · 8%Class B4,429 · 26%Class A11,127 · 66%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 hazardous185
  • Class B · hazardous195
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,038

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

Good to know

  • J and M at Hewes St; J, M and Z at Marcy Av
  • G train at Flushing Av
  • About a third of homes are in buildings of 7+ floors (PLUTO)
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard lies just to the southwest

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. Confirmed: tallest buildings are 1960s-70s developments of 21-25 floors (PLUTO); J/M at Hewes St, J/M/Z at Marcy Av and G at Flushing Av inside the polygon. No changes needed.

Sources

  1. Williamsburg, 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 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.