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Sunset Park Central

Sunset Park Central is the blocks around the park itself, roughly between Fifth and Eighth Avenues from about 39th Street to 64th Street. Its Eighth Avenue edge is lined with the shops of Brooklyn's first Chinatown. The housing is almost all old and low-rise: rowhouses, many of them two-family homes from the 1890s on, and small walk-up buildings. PLUTO data puts about 91% of its roughly 14,200 homes in buildings from before 1940, with almost no elevator buildings. Several blocks are in city historic districts designated in 2019. The N train stops at Eighth Avenue, and the 59th Street station (N, R) is on the edge. The 24.5-acre Sunset Park is known for its views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.

Sunset Park Central has 17,603 open HPD housing violations, 3,274 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 4,043 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 27th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
17,603
3,274 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
4,043
933 Class C · 32nd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C3,274 · 19%Class B7,879 · 45%Class A6,450 · 37%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 hazardous933
  • Class B · hazardous1,282
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,355

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

Good to know

  • N train at 8 Av; N and R at 59 St on the edge
  • Sunset Park covers 24.5 acres between 41st and 44th Streets
  • About 91% of homes are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO)
  • Chinese businesses line Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn's first Chinatown

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: removed unsupported '1892 to 1910 bayed rowhouses' range and 'named for its views' claim; park views now as described by NYC Parks. Confirmed: four LPC historic districts designated June 2019 (Wikipedia); Chinatown along Eighth Avenue; park 24.5 acres at 41st-44th Streets, 5th-7th Avenues (NYC Parks and Parks Properties).

Sources

  1. Sunset Park, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Sunset Park · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. Parks Properties · NYC Parks 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.