roofy
Post

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Spring Creek and Starrett City

Spring Creek is the southeast corner of East New York, south of Flatlands Avenue and north of the Belt Parkway and Jamaica Bay, near the Queens line. Most homes are in Starrett City, now officially Spring Creek Towers: 46 buildings of 11 to 20 stories with 5,881 apartments, opened in 1974. Newer Gateway Estates housing adds modular Nehemiah rowhouses and six-story affordable buildings. The Gateway Center shopping center opened in 2002, with a second phase from late 2014. PLUTO puts about 87% of the area's roughly 15,200 homes in buildings of seven or more floors. There is no subway station. Buses such as the B82, B83 and BM2/BM5 serve the area; the nearest subway stops are East 105th Street and Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway on the L.

Spring Creek and Starrett City has 791 open HPD housing violations, 96 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 707 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 53rd most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

Check a building in Brooklyn

Open HPD violations
791
96 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
707
165 Class C · 52nd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C96 · 12%Class B245 · 31%Class A450 · 57%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 hazardous165
  • Class B · hazardous270
  • Class A · non-hazardous214

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

Good to know

  • Starrett City / Spring Creek Towers: 46 buildings, 5,881 apartments, opened 1974
  • No subway stations; nearest are East 105 St and Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy (L)
  • Gateway Center opened in 2002, with a second phase from late 2014
  • Spring Creek Park is inside the area; Shirley Chisholm State Park borders it

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: removed unverified New Lots Av 'nearest station' claim; Spring Creek Park is inside the NTA (Parks Properties) while Shirley Chisholm State Park is its own NTA bordering it; Gateway Center II opened in stages from late 2014. Confirmed: 46 buildings, 5,881 units, 11-20 stories, opened 1974 (Wikipedia); B82/B83 and BM2/BM5 stop inside (MTA GTFS).

Sources

  1. Spring Creek, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Starrett City, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (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)
  4. MTA Brooklyn bus GTFS schedule data · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. MTA Bus Company GTFS schedule data · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (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.