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Washington Heights (North)

This is the northern half of Washington Heights, from about 180th Street north to Dyckman Street, between the Hudson and Harlem rivers. It includes Hudson Heights on the west side, known for its Art Deco apartment buildings, and Fort George to the east. Much of the housing dates from the 1920s apartment-building boom. The A train stops at 181st and 190th Streets under Fort Washington Avenue and at Dyckman Street, and the 1 stops at 181st, 191st and Dyckman Streets. Fort Tryon Park (67 acres), designed by the Olmsted Brothers and dedicated in 1935, holds The Cloisters and the Heather Garden. Bennett Park contains the highest natural point in Manhattan, at 265 feet.

Washington Heights (North) has 26,691 open HPD housing violations, 7,659 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 14,542 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 6th most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
26,691
7,659 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
14,542
4,721 Class C · 4th in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C7,659 · 29%Class B14,162 · 53%Class A4,870 · 18%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous4,721
  • Class B · hazardous7,397
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,311

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 14, 2026

Good to know

  • Fort Tryon Park dedicated to the public in 1935
  • The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, opened in Fort Tryon Park in 1938
  • Bennett Park has Manhattan's highest natural point (265 ft)
  • A train at 181st, 190th and Dyckman Streets; 1 train at 181st, 191st and Dyckman Streets

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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). The polygon reaches Dyckman Street, and both Dyckman St stations (A and 1) fall inside, so they were added. The north/south split falls around 177th-181st Streets depending on the avenue. Olmsted Brothers design and Cloisters (1938) from NYC Parks history; dedication date (October 12, 1935) and 67.21 acres from Wikipedia (Fort Tryon Park); Bennett Park 265.05 ft from NYC Parks. Housing wording changed to Wikipedia's '1920s construction boom'; unsourced 'five- and six-story' claim removed.

Sources

  1. Fort Tryon Park history (NYC Parks) · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Bennett Park history (NYC Parks) · NYC Parks (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Fort Tryon Park (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. Washington Heights, Manhattan (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (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 14, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.