Street record · Brooklyn

Washington Avenue

265 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights (South). 11 changed status in the last 7 days.

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Qualified records265
Active-status records130
Latest status changeSep 19, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of Washington Avenue

City Planning maps 443 tax lots on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn, 33% of them walk-up apartments. The oldest went up in 1800 and the newest in 2025. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1900s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
443
Buildings
486
Homes
3,103
Typically built
1900s
Typical height
3–16 floors
Built area
3,836,769 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • Walk-up apartments145 of 443
  • Mixed residential and commercial110 of 443
  • One and two family homes109 of 443

Zoning: R6B, R6A, 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 Washington Avenue.

Of the 16 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 7 carry at least one — 44% — and 3 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
89
Immediately hazardous
29
Addresses checked
16

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 20, 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

39 homes on Washington Avenue 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 21, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.