Water leak violations in Brooklyn.

HPD has written 70,406 water leak violations in Brooklyn, 32.0% of the city’s total.

See what is open on one building.

65,244 water leak violations cited in Brooklyn over the last three years.

What this means

A leak left open can turn into mold, electrical and structural problems. Leak violations often come back in other apartments in the same building.

Brooklyn, by category: Heat and hot water, Lead paint, Vermin and pests, Mold, Electrical. All five boroughs

How an HPD water leak 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 water leak violations are cited, by month

Water leak 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, 6,358. February has the fewest, 4,492.

Water leak violations by class: A, B and C

HPD sorts every water leak 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 10,431 Class C water leak violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 50,811 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 9,164 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 14.8% of the 70,406 water leak violations recorded in Brooklyn.

How often Brooklyn water leak violations get certified corrected

3,494 of Brooklyn’s 10,431 Class C water leak violations have ever been certified corrected, 33.5%. Those certifications came a median of 14 days after the inspection, and 33 days at the 90th percentile. 1,397 have gone more than a year with no certification at all, 13.4% of the class.

Not Complied With is HPD’s record of a failed reinspection: the inspector went back and the condition was still there. It sits on 2.9% of Brooklyn’s water leak violations.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

A filed certification is not a closed case. HPD reviews the documents, and documents with a defect send the case to Invalid Certification, which means filing again. A reinspection that finds the condition not properly corrected sends it to False Certification instead. The filing date sets the rest: filed by the certify-by date, the violation shows NOV Certified On Time; filed after it, NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Defect Letter Issued is the inspector seeing the condition corrected while HPD still waits on documents. The status glossary explains each one.

Brooklyn against the rest of New York City

Against a citywide total of 220,236 water leak violations, Brooklyn accounts for 70,406, or 32.0%. The five boroughs compare like this.

Which Brooklyn streets carry the most open water leak violations

Open water leak violations in Brooklyn are not spread evenly. Counted by street, the heaviest run like this.

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Every HPD status on Brooklyn water leak violations

HPD gives every violation a status that says where the case stands. Here is each one on Brooklyn’s water leak violations, heaviest first, with the glossary behind every name.

Every figure here counts violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 70,406 water leak violations in Brooklyn; no building or owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.