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Windsor Terrace & South Slope

This area covers the southern end of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace in Brooklyn, from about Fourth Avenue east to Prospect Park, south of about 15th Street down to Green-Wood Cemetery. The Prospect Expressway cuts through the middle. Housing is mostly low-rise: brick rowhouses and wood-frame and clapboard houses, with a few mid-rise apartment buildings, and a late-1980s rezoning in Windsor Terrace aimed at blocking high-rises. The F and G trains stop at 15th Street–Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Prospect Park, the 526-acre park laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, borders the area to the east.

Windsor Terrace & South Slope has 7,584 open HPD housing violations, 1,257 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 1,830 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 46th most open violations of 53 neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Open HPD violations
7,584
1,257 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
1,830
456 Class C · 44th in Brooklyn
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C1,257 · 17%Class B3,224 · 43%Class A3,103 · 41%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 hazardous456
  • Class B · hazardous451
  • Class A · non-hazardous656

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

Good to know

  • F and G trains at 15th Street–Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway
  • Borders Prospect Park (526 acres) and Green-Wood Cemetery
  • Mostly rowhouses and frame houses, with a few mid-rise apartment buildings
  • Late-1980s rezoning in Windsor Terrace was meant to block high-rises
  • Part of Brooklyn Community District 7

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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

Station placement checked by point-in-polygon of MTA Subway Stations coordinates (daytime routes) against the 2020 NTA polygon; landmark addresses geocoded with NYC Planning GeoSearch and tested against the same polygons. Both Culver Line stations fall inside BK0701; sample addresses on 15th–16th Streets and Caton Place confirm the extent. Removed unsupported 'six-to-eight-story apartment buildings' (Wikipedia describes only a few apartment buildings) and the Caton Avenue edge. Prospect Park acreage (526) confirmed in Parks Properties and Wikipedia; NYC Parks page replaced (HTTP 403).

Sources

  1. Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Prospect Park (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Parks Properties · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Open Data) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Subway Stations · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Open NY) (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (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.