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Fire protection in certain old law tenements in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2044 · Brooklyn · written Jul 16, 1984 – Aug 6, 2026

4,694 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2044 in Brooklyn, 77.0% of the section's citywide record. 1,356 are open right now, 1,347 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,356
Open past deadline
1,347
Closed
3,338
All time in Brooklyn
4,694
Class C (immediately hazardous)
2,809

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 189 days against a median legal deadline of 26 days; the citywide median is 210 days.
  • 200 notices (4.3%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.7%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 77.0% of every § 27-2044 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2044 violations

  1. 1273 HERKIMER STREET · 8 open
  2. 661 BALTIC STREET · 6 open
  3. 1560 DE KALB AVENUE · 6 open
  4. 1328 GATES AVENUE · 6 open
  5. 1114 PUTNAM AVENUE · 6 open
  6. 166 17 STREET · 6 open
  7. 715 BUSHWICK AVENUE · 6 open
  8. 830 HART STREET · 6 open
  9. 851 ROGERS AVENUE · 5 open
  10. 2298 ATLANTIC AVENUE · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2044, "Fire protection in certain old law tenements". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2044 Fire protection in certain old law tenements citywide · Browse open § 27-2044 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (275 open) · Queens (118 open) · Manhattan (76 open)

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