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Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 · Brooklyn · written Jun 8, 1967 – Aug 5, 2026

26,234 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040 in Brooklyn, 53.1% of the section's citywide record. 13,382 are open right now, 13,371 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
13,382
Open past deadline
13,371
Closed
12,852
All time in Brooklyn
26,234
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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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.
  • 1,056 notices (4.0%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.6%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 53.1% of every § 27-2040 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2040 violations

  1. 188 ROCKAWAY AVENUE · 11 open
  2. 1799 NOSTRAND AVENUE · 8 open
  3. 1649 NOSTRAND AVENUE · 8 open
  4. 629 NOSTRAND AVENUE · 8 open
  5. 3410 BEVERLY ROAD · 8 open
  6. 300 LAFAYETTE AVENUE · 7 open
  7. 2327 STRAUSS STREET · 7 open
  8. 1309 NOSTRAND AVENUE · 7 open
  9. 1055 BERGEN STREET · 7 open
  10. 130 ROCKAWAY PARKWAY · 7 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2040, "Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2040 Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of multiple dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2040 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Manhattan (3,930 open) · The Bronx (3,358 open) · Queens (2,802 open)

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