Street record · Brooklyn

East 55 Street

25 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span East Flatbush-Rugby, Flatlands. 2 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records25
Active-status records13
Latest status changeSep 23, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 55 Street

City Planning maps 768 tax lots on East 55 Street in Brooklyn, 87% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1901 and the newest in 2009. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1940s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
768
Buildings
970
Homes
1,362
Typically built
1940s
Typical height
2–4 floors
Built area
1,509,592 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes665 of 768
  • Walk-up apartments94 of 768
  • Vacant land4 of 768

Zoning: R3-2, R5, R4 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

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

39 homes on East 55 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 Sep 25, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.