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Reoccupancy after vacate order in Brooklyn

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 · Brooklyn · written Oct 27, 1980 – Aug 4, 2026

4,865 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 in Brooklyn, 28.6% of the section's citywide record. 2,143 are open right now, 86 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,143
Open past deadline
86
Closed
2,722
All time in Brooklyn
4,865
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Brooklyn against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Brooklyn took 276 days against a median legal deadline of 100 days; the citywide median is 273 days.
  • 210 notices (4.3%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.5%.
  • Brooklyn accounts for 28.6% of every § 27-2142 violation on record citywide.

Brooklyn buildings with the most open § 27-2142 violations

  1. 5401 7 AVENUE · 39 open
  2. 819 WILLOUGHBY AVENUE · 12 open
  3. 446 ASHFORD STREET · 11 open
  4. 881 ST JOHNS PLACE · 11 open
  5. 40 CORNELIA STREET · 11 open
  6. 1133 LAFAYETTE AVENUE · 11 open
  7. 464 CLINTON AVENUE · 11 open
  8. 94 MONROE STREET · 10 open
  9. 110 BOERUM PLACE · 10 open
  10. 603 LINDEN BOULEVARD · 9 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Brooklyn rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142, "Reoccupancy after vacate order". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2142 Reoccupancy after vacate order citywide · Browse open § 27-2142 records in Brooklyn in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (1,520 open) · Queens (1,839 open) · Manhattan (616 open) · Staten Island (232 open)

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