The record, live: Brooklyn
Water leaks violations in Brooklyn.
water leaks violations cited in Brooklyn in the trailing 3 years, read from the city’s open-data API at this deploy.
What this means
Active leaks cascade into mold, electrical, and structural items if left open. Leak violations frequently recur across units of the same building on the record.
In the verified feed
747 case files in Brooklyn right now, 440 carrying ten or more open Class C hazards, median 21 per file. Stamped August 25, 2026, refreshed nightly.
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How a violation reaches this record
Most rows here start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if an inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From that point the violation is searchable on HPD Online by address. It stays on the public record used throughout this site until the agency accepts a correction or the agency closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.
The monthly pattern
Water leaks 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 carries the most at 6,358. February carries the fewest at 4,492.
| Month | Violations |
|---|---|
| January | 5,713 |
| February | 4,492 |
| March | 5,451 |
| April | 5,915 |
| May | 5,544 |
| June | 5,315 |
| July | 5,370 |
| August | 5,345 |
| September | 5,187 |
| October | 6,358 |
| November | 4,743 |
| December | 5,141 |
By class
HPD sorts every water leaks 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 9,893 Class C water leaks violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 47,641 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 8,755 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
Class C is 14.9% of the 66,289 water leaks violations recorded in Brooklyn.
The certification record
Of 9,893 Class C water leaks violations in Brooklyn, 3,301 have ever been certified corrected, 33.4%. Correction took a median of 14 days and a 90th percentile of 32 days. 4,206 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.
3.0% of water leaks violations in Brooklyn are currently marked Not Complied With, HPD's status once the certify-by date passes without an accepted certification.
After a certification is filed
Filing a certification does not automatically close a case. If HPD reviews the paperwork and finds it insufficient, the case moves to Defect Letter Issued and the owner must refile. If a reinspection later finds the condition still uncorrected despite a certification on file, the case moves to Invalid Certification. A certification accepted after the certify-by date is marked NOV Certified Late rather than on time; one accepted before it is marked NOV Certified On Time. Each of these statuses carries its own page in the status glossary, decoded in plain language.
Against the citywide figure
Brooklyn has recorded 66,289 water leaks violations, 31.7% of the citywide total of 208,915. Here is every borough's total for the same category.
| Borough | Water leaks violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 77,625 |
| Brooklyn | 66,289 |
| Manhattan | 35,944 |
| Queens | 25,432 |
| Staten Island | 3,625 |
Where it concentrates
The streets carrying the most open water leaks violations in Brooklyn, aggregated by street, never by building or owner:
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Ocean Avenue | 683 |
| Lincoln Avenue | 472 |
| Linden Boulevard | 350 |
| Nostrand Avenue | 349 |
| Eastern Parkway | 322 |
| Eldert Lane | 299 |
| St Johns Place | 292 |
| Park Place | 267 |
Open means the current status is neither Violation Dismissed nor Violation Closed.
The status breakdown
Every current status HPD has recorded against a water leaks violation in Brooklyn, most common first. Each status name links to its own page in the glossary where one exists.
| Status | Violations |
|---|---|
| Violation Dismissed | 20,491 |
| Nov Sent Out | 19,597 |
| Violation Closed | 19,095 |
| First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation | 2,434 |
| Not Complied With | 1,966 |
| Invalid Certification | 550 |
| Civ14 Mailed | 524 |
| Violation Will Be Reinspected | 495 |
| Nov Certified Late | 389 |
| Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant | 188 |
| False Certification | 186 |
| Nov Certified On Time | 117 |
| Defect Letter Issued | 84 |
| Violation Open | 61 |
| Certification Postponment Denied | 58 |
| Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation | 36 |
| Certification Postponment Granted | 18 |
Aggregates only; no building or owner is named here. The monthly, class, certification, street, and status figures above are queried from HPD's own violation record, pulled August 27, 2026, based on 66,289 water leaks violation rows in Brooklyn. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.