Street record · Brooklyn

Boerum Street

31 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span East Williamsburg.

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Qualified records31
Active-status records13
Latest status changeSep 9, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of Boerum Street

City Planning maps 69 tax lots on Boerum Street in Brooklyn, 35% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2022. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1930s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
69
Buildings
79
Homes
1,673
Typically built
1930s
Typical height
2–22 floors
Built area
1,761,001 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments24 of 69
  • One and two family homes14 of 69
  • Industrial and manufacturing11 of 69

Zoning: M1-1, R6, M1-2 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 Boerum Street.

Of the 4 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 4 carry at least one — 100% — and 4 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
135
Immediately hazardous
36
Addresses checked
4

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 21, 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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Source snapshot accessed Oct 1, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.