Street record · Brooklyn

56 Street

153 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Borough Park, Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Sunset Park (West). 5 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records153
Active-status records84
Latest status changeOct 7, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of 56 Street

City Planning maps 667 tax lots on 56 Street in Brooklyn, 49% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1894 and the newest in 2025. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
667
Buildings
788
Homes
1,837
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
2–6 floors
Built area
2,380,742 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes324 of 667
  • Walk-up apartments281 of 667
  • Mixed residential and commercial31 of 667

Zoning: R6B, R6, R5 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 56 Street.

Of the 14 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 3 carry at least one — 21% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
123
Immediately hazardous
40
Addresses checked
14

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 Oct 9, 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

32 homes on 56 Street 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 Oct 12, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.