Alteration filingDec 28
254 East 56 Street
East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn
Recorded as completed$36,100 recorded cost
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East 56 Street
2 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span East Flatbush-Rugby.
Qualified records2
Active-status records1
Latest status changeDec 28, 2020
What is on this street
The built record of East 56 Street
City Planning maps 717 tax lots on East 56 Street in Brooklyn, 81% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1901 and the newest in 2007. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.
- Tax lots
- 717
- Buildings
- 842
- Homes
- 1,441
- Typically built
- 1950s
- Typical height
- 2–4 floors
- Built area
- 1,580,086 sq ft
How the lots are used
- One and two family homes583 of 717
- Walk-up apartments120 of 717
- Vacant land4 of 717
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.
Explore this corridor on the mapSource snapshot accessed Sep 11, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.