Street record · Brooklyn

Union Street

358 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Park Slope, Crown Heights (South). 9 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records358
Active-status records194
Latest status changeOct 1, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of Union Street

City Planning maps 997 tax lots on Union Street in Brooklyn, 46% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1860 and the newest in 2025. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1910s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
997
Buildings
1,046
Homes
5,647
Typically built
1910s
Typical height
3–22 floors
Built area
6,142,963 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes458 of 997
  • Walk-up apartments371 of 997
  • Mixed residential and commercial79 of 997

Zoning: R4, R6B, R6A 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 Union Street.

Of the 13 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 4 carry at least one — 31% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
33
Immediately hazardous
2
Addresses checked
13

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 3, 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

45 homes on Union 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 3, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.