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Duties of owner in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · Brooklyn · written May 24, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

1,800,747 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 in Brooklyn, 36.3% of the section's citywide record. 474,030 are open right now, 462,051 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
474,030
Open past deadline
462,051
Closed
1,326,717
All time in Brooklyn
1,800,747
Class C (immediately hazardous)
364,159

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 415 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 363 days.
  • 46,008 notices (2.6%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.4%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 36.3% of every § 27-2005 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2005 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE · 1,002 open
  2. 760 ELDERT LANE · 728 open
  3. 1055 BERGEN STREET · 602 open
  4. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY · 496 open
  5. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE · 426 open
  6. 229 EAST 18 STREET · 401 open
  7. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE · 371 open
  8. 340 SOUTH 3 STREET · 338 open
  9. 738 NEW JERSEY AVENUE · 329 open
  10. 1350 PARK PLACE · 329 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner citywide · Browse open § 27-2005 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (260,709 open) · Manhattan (206,294 open) · Queens (187,733 open) · Staten Island (31,197 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Brooklyn rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.