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Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Sunset Park East and Borough Park West

This area sits where Sunset Park meets Borough Park, roughly between Eighth Avenue and Tenth Avenue/New Utrecht Avenue from about 38th to 60th Streets. It is a dense grid of older rowhouses and small walk-up apartment buildings. PLUTO data puts about 54% of its roughly 10,200 homes in walk-ups and about 83% in buildings from before 1940. The D train on the elevated West End line stops at Ninth Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Rappaport Playground and Brizzi Playground are the main NYC Parks sites.

Sunset Park East and Borough Park West has 13,407 open HPD housing violations, 2,148 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 3,118 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 35th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
13,407
2,148 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
3,118
648 Class C · 42nd in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C2,148 · 16%Class B5,568 · 42%Class A5,691 · 42%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 hazardous648
  • Class B · hazardous957
  • Class A · non-hazardous1,063

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

Good to know

  • D train at 9 Av and Fort Hamilton Pkwy
  • About 83% of homes are in pre-1940 buildings (PLUTO)
  • About 54% of homes are in walk-up apartment buildings (PLUTO)
  • Rappaport and Brizzi Playgrounds are the local NYC Parks sites

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: D at 9 Av and Fort Hamilton Pkwy inside the polygon; Rappaport (1.15 acres) and Brizzi (0.65 acres) are the only sizable Parks properties; PLUTO walk-up and pre-1940 shares match. No changes needed.

Sources

  1. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning via NYC Open Data (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 16, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.