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Violation in a dwelling unit upon or prior to turnover in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.8 · Brooklyn · written Dec 12, 2019 – Jun 8, 2021

2,159 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.8 in Brooklyn, 28.1% of the section's citywide record. 1,106 are open right now, 1,106 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,106
Open past deadline
1,106
Closed
1,053
All time in Brooklyn
2,159
Class C (immediately hazardous)
2,159

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 469 days against a median legal deadline of 4 days; the citywide median is 324 days.
  • 60 notices (2.8%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.5%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 28.1% of every § 27-2056.8 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2056.8 violations

  1. 321 OVINGTON AVENUE · 40 open
  2. 155 WOODRUFF AVENUE · 22 open
  3. 665 88 STREET · 20 open
  4. 188 WILSON STREET · 20 open
  5. 1753 47 STREET · 19 open
  6. 1802 OCEAN PARKWAY · 18 open
  7. 402 FOSTER AVENUE · 18 open
  8. 1640 OCEAN AVENUE · 18 open
  9. 4701 15 AVENUE · 18 open
  10. 221 EAST 18 STREET · 17 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.8, "Violation in a dwelling unit upon or prior to turnover". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2056.8 Violation in a dwelling unit upon or prior to turnover citywide · Browse open § 27-2056.8 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (1,667 open) · Queens (760 open) · Manhattan (435 open)

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