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Violation in a dwelling unit in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6 · Brooklyn · written Aug 11, 2004Aug 6, 2026

88,755 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6 in Brooklyn, 34.6% of the section's citywide record. 23,415 are open right now, 23,013 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
23,415
Open past deadline
23,013
Closed
65,340
All time in Brooklyn
88,755
Class C (immediately hazardous)
88,755

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 161 days against a median legal deadline of 26 days; the citywide median is 136 days.
  • 795 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 0.8%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 34.6% of every § 27-2056.6 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2056.6 violations

  1. 255 EASTERN PARKWAY · 88 open
  2. 711 EVERGREEN AVENUE · 58 open
  3. 6823 RIDGE BOULEVARD · 51 open
  4. 10 SARATOGA AVENUE · 45 open
  5. 540 OCEAN AVENUE · 42 open
  6. 459 BAY RIDGE AVENUE · 40 open
  7. 280 EAST 21 STREET · 40 open
  8. 1196 EASTERN PARKWAY · 39 open
  9. 1018 EASTERN PARKWAY · 39 open
  10. 861 48 STREET · 37 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6, "Violation in a dwelling unit". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2056.6 Violation in a dwelling unit citywide · Browse open § 27-2056.6 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (20,121 open) · Manhattan (9,556 open) · Queens (7,026 open) · Staten Island (615 open)

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