Street record · Brooklyn

West 16 Street

38 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Coney Island-Sea Gate, Gravesend (South).

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Qualified records38
Active-status records28
Latest status changeSep 15, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of West 16 Street

City Planning maps 121 tax lots on West 16 Street in Brooklyn, 50% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2024. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1930s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
121
Buildings
162
Homes
1,020
Typically built
1930s
Typical height
2–19 floors
Built area
996,210 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes60 of 121
  • Walk-up apartments36 of 121
  • Vacant land7 of 121

Zoning: R6, M1-2, R5 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 West 16 Street.

Of the 2 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 1 carries at least one — 50% — and 1 carries at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
41
Immediately hazardous
10
Addresses checked
2

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 21, 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

20 homes on West 16 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 22, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.