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Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 · Brooklyn · written Aug 18, 1967 – Jul 29, 2026

10,944 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039 in Brooklyn, 58.0% of the section's citywide record. 5,163 are open right now, 5,151 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
5,163
Open past deadline
5,151
Closed
5,781
All time in Brooklyn
10,944
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 1,500 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 1,500 days.
  • 220 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.8%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 58.0% of every § 27-2039 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2039 violations

  1. 365 STATE STREET · 12 open
  2. 133 MAC DONOUGH STREET · 10 open
  3. 1055 BERGEN STREET · 10 open
  4. 1466 FULTON STREET · 9 open
  5. 423 THROOP AVENUE · 7 open
  6. 59 VAN SICKLEN STREET · 7 open
  7. 23 A VERNON AVENUE · 7 open
  8. 479 CENTRAL AVENUE · 7 open
  9. 358 MIDWOOD STREET · 6 open
  10. 769 MAC DONOUGH STREET · 6 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2039, "Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2039 Lighting to be provided at night; owner's responsibility citywide · Browse open § 27-2039 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (817 open) · Manhattan (774 open) · Queens (1,055 open)

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