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Tribeca and Civic Center

This Lower Manhattan area covers Tribeca, roughly Canal Street to Chambers Street between Broadway and the Hudson River, and the Civic Center around City Hall to the east and south. Tribeca's housing is mostly former warehouse and industrial buildings converted to lofts, plus newer condominiums; four Tribeca historic districts were designated in 1991 and 1992. The Civic Center holds City Hall, Tweed Courthouse, the Manhattan Municipal Building and the Foley Square courthouses. Subway service is extensive: the 1, 2 and 3 at Chambers Street, the A, C and E at Canal Street, the A and C at Chambers Street, the 4, 5 and 6 at Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall, and the R and W at City Hall. Parks include City Hall Park, Washington Market Park and Hudson River Park.

Tribeca and Civic Center has 1,458 open HPD housing violations, 254 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 622 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 30th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
1,458
254 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
622
112 Class C · 31st in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C254 · 17%Class B656 · 45%Class A548 · 38%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 hazardous112
  • Class B · hazardous201
  • Class A · non-hazardous225

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

Good to know

  • Tribeca West, East, North and South historic districts designated 1991–1992
  • City Hall Park covers 8.8 acres between Broadway, Park Row and Chambers Street
  • Washington Market Park (2.15 acres) is on Chambers Street between Greenwich and West Streets
  • The 1 train stops at Franklin Street and Chambers Street

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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

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Stations listed all fall inside the polygon; Chambers St is served by the A and C (the E stops at the connected World Trade Center station), so the A/C/E wording was corrected and the City Hall R/W stop added. Historic district dates (Tribeca West 1991; East, North and South 1992) and loft housing from Wikipedia (Tribeca); civic buildings from Wikipedia (Civic Center). City Hall Park (8.8) and Washington Market Park (2.15, Chambers St between Greenwich and West) from the Parks Properties dataset.

Sources

  1. Tribeca (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Civic Center, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. City Hall Park (NYC Parks) · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“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.