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Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 · Brooklyn · written May 10, 1968 – Aug 6, 2026

252,465 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 in Brooklyn, 33.9% of the section's citywide record. 83,832 are open right now, 82,216 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
83,832
Open past deadline
82,216
Closed
168,633
All time in Brooklyn
252,465
Class C (immediately hazardous)
134,364

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 713 days against a median legal deadline of 26 days; the citywide median is 618 days.
  • 12,089 notices (4.8%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 4.5%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 33.9% of every § 27-2018 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2018 violations

  1. 760 ELDERT LANE · 293 open
  2. 1593 FULTON STREET · 266 open
  3. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE · 230 open
  4. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE · 214 open
  5. 738 NEW JERSEY AVENUE · 155 open
  6. 2455 BEDFORD AVENUE · 122 open
  7. 1700 BEDFORD AVENUE · 121 open
  8. 553 HOWARD AVENUE · 119 open
  9. 2980 WEST 28 STREET · 101 open
  10. 790 ELDERT LANE · 95 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018, "Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2018 Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination citywide · Browse open § 27-2018 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (69,264 open) · Manhattan (33,776 open) · Queens (32,913 open) · Staten Island (5,809 open)

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