Street record · Brooklyn

16 Avenue

131 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Borough Park. 1 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records131
Active-status records67
Latest status changeSep 24, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of 16 Avenue

City Planning maps 624 tax lots on 16 Avenue in Brooklyn, 54% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2023. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1930s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
624
Buildings
797
Homes
1,273
Typically built
1930s
Typical height
2–6 floors
Built area
2,344,376 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes338 of 624
  • Mixed residential and commercial110 of 624
  • Walk-up apartments86 of 624

Zoning: R5, R4, R6 are the districts covering most of the street. A zoning district sets what may be built, not what is there now.

NYC Department of City Planning · Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · 64uk-42ks · read 2026-09-11

Living here

The housing record on 16 Avenue.

Of the 5 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 2 carry at least one — 40% — and 2 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
141
Immediately hazardous
19
Addresses checked
5

The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Sep 25, 2026.

How to read this street page

A shared street name does not mean a shared project.

These records are grouped by the street name and borough published by DOB. Each address remains an independent filing unless its source record explicitly connects it to another site. Use this page to scan activity along the corridor, then open an individual filing for its exact status, scope and identifiers.

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On the market

16 homes on 16 Avenue are listed today.

What the brokerages are currently asking along this street. These are the first 12. Each one links to the agent’s own page, where the price is live and the photographs are.

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Source snapshot accessed Sep 25, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.