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Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · Brooklyn · written Mar 9, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

22,926 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 in Brooklyn, 45.9% of the section's citywide record. 6,354 are open right now, 6,264 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
6,354
Open past deadline
6,264
Closed
16,572
All time in Brooklyn
22,926
Class C (immediately hazardous)
7,786

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 212 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 199 days.
  • 277 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 45.9% of every § 27-2037 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2037 violations

  1. 1242 BUSHWICK AVENUE · 42 open
  2. 385 ESSEX STREET · 33 open
  3. 1055 BERGEN STREET · 27 open
  4. 675 EAST 103 STREET · 25 open
  5. 621 WILLOUGHBY AVENUE · 25 open
  6. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY · 23 open
  7. 2455 BEDFORD AVENUE · 22 open
  8. 2089 PACIFIC STREET · 21 open
  9. 1200 EAST 95 STREET · 20 open
  10. 601 EAST 22 STREET · 19 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2037 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (2,765 open) · Queens (2,443 open) · Manhattan (1,053 open) · Staten Island (559 open)

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