See building permits, safety reports, and zoning data for East New York and Starrett City, eastern Brooklyn communities targeted for major rezoning and investment.
Search this neighborhoodEast New York and Starrett City form Brooklyn Community District 5, occupying the far eastern portion of Brooklyn along the Queens border. The district was developed primarily as working-class housing in the early 20th century and experienced severe disinvestment, arson, and population loss during the 1970s and 1980s. Today it remains one of Brooklyn's lower-income communities, though the 2016 East New York Rezoning—New York City's first neighborhood rezoning under the de Blasio administration—has spurred significant new affordable and market-rate housing investment.
Starrett City (also known as Spring Creek Towers) in the district's southeastern corner is one of the largest federally subsidized housing developments in the country, housing thousands of families along the Jamaica Bay shoreline. The Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street corridors anchor the commercial core of East New York proper. The district borders the Gateway National Recreation Area marshlands and Jamaica Bay to the south.
CivicScout tracks NYPD complaint data, traffic crashes, and open HPD violations across East New York and Starrett City by address.
View safety data→East New York sees growing DOB permit volume tied to the 2016 rezoning, with new affordable and market-rate residential construction concentrated along Atlantic Avenue and the Cypress Hills corridor.
View permits→Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction→The district spans R5 and R6 residential zones, C2 commercial overlays along Atlantic and Fulton corridors, and large M1 manufacturing zones near the Queens border and rail yards. The 2016 East New York Rezoning introduced R7A and C4 zones to enable denser mixed-use development.
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View schools→Location reports for East New York addresses surface DOB permit activity under the 2016 rezoning, 311 housing complaints, HPD violations, and context on subsidized housing developments.
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