Lead paint violations in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn certifies 21.8% of its Class C lead paint violations, the highest of the five boroughs. Citywide the rate is 20.5%.
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22,932 lead paint violations cited in Brooklyn over the last three years.
What this means
Lead paint violations in homes where a child may live are among the most serious violations HPD writes. A certified firm has to do the abatement, and the owner then certifies the correction with HPD.
If you own the building. An HPD lead paint violation stays open until HPD accepts a certification or closes it. Until then it sits in the building’s public history, where a buyer, a lender or a plan examiner will read it. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Brooklyn for a living. Brooklyn carries 4,928 Class C lead paint violations more than a year old with nothing filed against them.
Our current feed holds 833 Brooklyn case files across all categories, and 434 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 15. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C lead paint violations here.
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If you rent here. An inspector stood in the building and wrote these up. What these numbers cannot tell you is whether the repair happened, only whether a certification was filed. What each status means.
Brooklyn, by category: Heat and hot water, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD lead paint violation gets issued
Most of these violations start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if the inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From then on anyone can look it up on HPD Online by address, and it stays open until HPD accepts a correction or closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.
When Brooklyn lead paint violations are cited, by month
Lead paint violations HPD has cited in Brooklyn, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months, so every month is counted across the same three years. October has the most, 2,123. September has the fewest, 1,624.
Lead paint violations by class: A, B and C
HPD sorts every lead paint violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Brooklyn, HPD has issued 21,217 Class C lead paint violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 21 days. It has issued 3,266 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.
Class C is 86.7% of the 24,483 lead paint violations recorded in Brooklyn.
How often Brooklyn lead paint violations get certified corrected
A certification is the owner’s statement that the repair is done, and in Brooklyn one has been filed on 21.8% of the 21,217 Class C lead paint violations. The median wait from inspection to that filing is 34 days; nine in ten land inside 57. The other side of the number: 4,928 violations open past a year with nothing filed.
When an inspector goes back and finds the condition still there, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. In Brooklyn that is 0.7% of lead paint violations.
Lead paint takes longer to certify than any of the other five categories, and the violations that name abatement take roughly twice as long again. Abatement and certification, measured.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
What happens next depends on the date and the review. A certification filed by the certify-by date shows as on time, one filed after it as late, and HPD does not accept a late one. HPD can then find a defect in the documents, which is Invalid Certification and a second filing, or send an inspector who finds the condition not properly corrected, which is False Certification. When an inspector sees the condition corrected but documents are missing, the status is Defect Letter Issued. Each of those has its own page in the glossary.
Brooklyn against the rest of New York City
Against a citywide total of 78,316 lead paint violations, Brooklyn accounts for 24,483, or 31.3%. The five boroughs compare like this.
| Borough | Lead paint violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 32,398 |
| Brooklyn | 24,483 |
| Manhattan | 11,747 |
| Queens | 9,096 |
| Staten Island | 592 |
Which Brooklyn streets carry the most open lead paint violations
Open lead paint violations in Brooklyn are not spread evenly. Counted by street, the heaviest run like this.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Ocean Avenue | 640 |
| Linden Boulevard | 249 |
| Ocean Parkway | 184 |
| Eastern Parkway | 177 |
| East 21 Street | 174 |
| Nostrand Avenue | 127 |
| Avenue K | 114 |
| Newkirk Avenue | 104 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Brooklyn buildings with open lead paint violations
Each of these Brooklyn buildings has its own page. They are 12 of the 970 with open lead paint violations, picked again each week and listed by street, not by count. Each count covers lead paint violations only, counted on October 17, 2026.
- 8517 3 Avenue, Brooklyn 6 open Class C lead paint violations
- 3813 18 Avenue, Brooklyn 13 open Class C lead paint violations
- 460 52 Street, Brooklyn 6 open Class C lead paint violations
- 3210 Avenue H, Brooklyn 6 open Class C lead paint violations
- 2802 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 1468 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 601 Crown Street, Brooklyn 12 open Class C lead paint violations
- 55 East 21 Street, Brooklyn 29 open Class C lead paint violations
- 9228 Glenwood Road, Brooklyn 7 open Class C lead paint violations
- 116 Lenox Road, Brooklyn 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 296 North 8 Street, Brooklyn 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 2400 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn 3 open Class C lead paint violations
Every HPD status on Brooklyn lead paint violations
HPD gives every violation a status that says where the case stands. Here is each one on Brooklyn’s lead paint violations, heaviest first, with the glossary behind every name.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Brooklyn lead paint violations, read from our copy of HPD's Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (NYC Open Data, wvxf-dwi5). Figures through October 17, 2026, read on October 19, 2026. https://violationscout.com/nyc/brooklyn-lead-paint
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches lead paint in Brooklyn; the three-year count at the top is read from the city's open-data API when the page is built. Source: NYC Open Data. How every figure here is counted: /methodology.
The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 24,483 lead paint violations in Brooklyn. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.