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Window guards in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 · Brooklyn · written Oct 31, 2011 – Aug 6, 2026

46,526 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1 in Brooklyn, 33.8% of the section's citywide record. 4,762 are open right now, 4,613 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,762
Open past deadline
4,613
Closed
41,764
All time in Brooklyn
46,526
Class C (immediately hazardous)
46,526

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 82 days against a median legal deadline of 28 days; the citywide median is 89 days.
  • 647 notices (1.4%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 1.2%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 33.8% of every § 27-2043.1 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2043.1 violations

  1. 1350 PARK PLACE · 13 open
  2. 480 QUINCY STREET · 10 open
  3. 463 52 STREET · 10 open
  4. 161 EMERSON PLACE · 9 open
  5. 476 47 STREET · 9 open
  6. 70 NELSON STREET · 9 open
  7. 115 EAST 21 STREET · 9 open
  8. 1018 EASTERN PARKWAY · 8 open
  9. 340 SOUTH 3 STREET · 8 open
  10. 321 OVINGTON AVENUE · 7 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2043.1, "Window guards". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2043.1 Window guards citywide · Browse open § 27-2043.1 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (3,252 open) · Manhattan (1,565 open) · Queens (2,085 open) · Staten Island (134 open)

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