8 DOB filings on South Portland Avenue · 8 not yet closed
4 more on this buildingStreet record · Brooklyn
South Portland Avenue
69 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Fort Greene.
Qualified records69
Active-status records42
Latest status changeOct 26, 2026
What is on this street
The built record of South Portland Avenue
City Planning maps 103 tax lots on South Portland Avenue in Brooklyn, 49% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1852 and the newest in 2022. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.
Where 1870s sits in the city’s own timeline
- Tax lots
- 103
- Buildings
- 102
- Homes
- 424
- Typically built
- 1870s
- Typical height
- 3–13 floors
- Built area
- 516,625 sq ft
How the lots are used
- Walk-up apartments50 of 103
- One and two family homes43 of 103
- Mixed residential and commercial6 of 103
Zoning: R6B, R7-2, R7A 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 South Portland Avenue.
Of the 3 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 33% — and 0 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.
- Open violations
- 1
- Immediately hazardous
- 0
- Addresses checked
- 3
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 31, 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.
Explore this corridor on the mapSource snapshot accessed Nov 1, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.