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Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · Brooklyn · written Oct 12, 1973 – Aug 6, 2026

250,690 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 in Brooklyn, 34.1% of the section's citywide record. 57,677 are open right now, 55,656 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
57,677
Open past deadline
55,656
Closed
193,013
All time in Brooklyn
250,690
Class C (immediately hazardous)
40,221

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 284 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 276 days.
  • 3,275 notices (1.3%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 34.1% of every § 27-2026 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2026 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE · 452 open
  2. 760 ELDERT LANE · 249 open
  3. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE · 167 open
  4. 1055 BERGEN STREET · 125 open
  5. 790 ELDERT LANE · 124 open
  6. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE · 88 open
  7. 229 EAST 18 STREET · 86 open
  8. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY · 83 open
  9. 340 SOUTH 3 STREET · 80 open
  10. 738 NEW JERSEY AVENUE · 70 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, "Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2026 Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures citywide · Browse open § 27-2026 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (41,916 open) · Manhattan (24,682 open) · Queens (26,333 open) · Staten Island (5,224 open)

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