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Receptacles for waste matter in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021 · Brooklyn · written Aug 21, 1990 – Aug 6, 2026

3,943 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021 in Brooklyn, 40.0% of the section's citywide record. 1,067 are open right now, 1,029 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,067
Open past deadline
1,029
Closed
2,876
All time in Brooklyn
3,943
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 287 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 272 days.
  • 106 notices (2.7%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.9%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 40.0% of every § 27-2021 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2021 violations

  1. 201 CHESTNUT STREET · 17 open
  2. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY · 11 open
  3. 1449 FULTON STREET · 10 open
  4. 229 EAST 18 STREET · 8 open
  5. 2325 FOSTER AVENUE · 8 open
  6. 114 CRESCENT STREET · 7 open
  7. 1315 48 STREET · 7 open
  8. 553 HOWARD AVENUE · 5 open
  9. 430 61 STREET · 5 open
  10. 372 BALTIC STREET · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021, "Receptacles for waste matter". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2021 Receptacles for waste matter citywide · Browse open § 27-2021 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (539 open) · Manhattan (661 open) · Queens (280 open)

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