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Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087 · Brooklyn · written May 18, 2000 – Aug 6, 2026

4,073 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087 in Brooklyn, 34.8% of the section's citywide record. 2,901 are open right now, 2,864 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,901
Open past deadline
2,864
Closed
1,172
All time in Brooklyn
4,073
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.
  • 272 notices (6.7%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 5.6%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 34.8% of every § 27-2087 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2087 violations

  1. 933 CRESCENT STREET · 10 open
  2. 74 WELDON STREET · 8 open
  3. 125 EAST 42 STREET · 6 open
  4. 84 ESSEX STREET · 6 open
  5. 326 PARKVILLE AVENUE · 6 open
  6. 354 GRAND AVENUE · 5 open
  7. 2351 EAST 4 STREET · 5 open
  8. 5308 13 AVENUE · 5 open
  9. 2471 EAST 1 STREET · 5 open
  10. 8745 23 AVENUE · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087, "Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2087 Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2087 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Queens (3,442 open) · The Bronx (1,368 open) · Staten Island (470 open)

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