Vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn.
HPD has written 64,582 vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn, 29.4% of the city’s total.
See what is open on one building.
59,753 vermin and pest violations cited in Brooklyn over the last three years.
What this means
A rodent or roach condition is a hazardous violation. The owner has to get rid of the pests, and repeat cases call for integrated pest management. Left open, these violations pile up from one inspection to the next.
If you own the building. An open vermin and pest violation is a fact about the building that outlasts whoever owns it. It shows at sale and at refinance until HPD accepts a certification, dismisses it or closes it on review. Of those, certification is the one an owner controls. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Brooklyn for a living. 13,053 Class C vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn are over a year old and carry no certification. Whatever is happening on site, nothing has been filed with HPD.
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 vermin and pest violations here.
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If you rent here. Each of these was confirmed by an HPD inspector. A certification means the owner filed paperwork, not that anyone came back to look at the work. What each status means.
Brooklyn, by category: Heat and hot water, Lead paint, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD vermin and pest 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 vermin and pest violations are cited, by month
Vermin and pest 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, 6,394. February has the fewest, 4,135.
Vermin and pest violations by class: A, B and C
HPD sorts every vermin and pest 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 59,973 Class C vermin and pest violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 21 days. It has issued 4,605 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 4 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.
Class C is 92.9% of the 64,582 vermin and pest violations recorded in Brooklyn.
How often Brooklyn vermin and pest violations get certified corrected
Two numbers sum up Brooklyn on Class C vermin and pest. One is 29,843, the violations certified corrected out of 59,973, 49.8%, filed at a median of 26 days and a 90th percentile of 35. The other is 13,053, the violations past a year with no certification at all.
Not Complied With is HPD’s record of a failed reinspection: the inspector went back and the condition was still there. It sits on 7.1% of Brooklyn’s vermin and pest violations.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
Two things decide the next status: the certify-by date and HPD’s review. Filed inside the date, a certification shows NOV Certified On Time; filed outside it, NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Documents with a defect become Invalid Certification, to be filed again. A certification an inspector contradicts becomes False Certification. An inspector who sees the fix while documents are missing leaves Defect Letter Issued. Every one of those has a page in the glossary.
Brooklyn against the rest of New York City
Citywide, HPD has written 219,494 vermin and pest violations. 64,582 of them are in Brooklyn, 29.4%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.
| Borough | Vermin and pest violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 93,002 |
| Brooklyn | 64,582 |
| Manhattan | 35,652 |
| Queens | 21,441 |
| Staten Island | 4,817 |
Which Brooklyn streets carry the most open vermin and pest violations
Grouped by street, this is where Brooklyn’s open vermin and pest violations sit.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Ocean Avenue | 813 |
| Nostrand Avenue | 517 |
| Linden Boulevard | 513 |
| Eastern Parkway | 460 |
| Fulton Street | 431 |
| Lincoln Avenue | 406 |
| East 21 Street | 385 |
| St Johns Place | 348 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Brooklyn buildings with open vermin and pest violations
Listed by street, a different 12 each week: 12 of the 2,158 Brooklyn buildings with open vermin and pest violations and a page of their own here. Each count covers vermin and pest violations only, counted on October 17, 2026.
- 8517 3 Avenue, Brooklyn 17 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 3813 18 Avenue, Brooklyn 23 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 3210 Avenue H, Brooklyn 8 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 3091 Brighton 5 Street, Brooklyn 7 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 1104 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn 10 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 536 East 29 Street, Brooklyn 2 open vermin and pest violations
- 147 East 52 Street, Brooklyn 3 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 9228 Glenwood Road, Brooklyn 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 181 Maujer Street, Brooklyn 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 2400 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn 16 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 894 Park Place, Brooklyn 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 1568A Prospect Place, Brooklyn 2 open Class C vermin and pest violations
Every HPD status on Brooklyn vermin and pest violations
The status tells you what happened to a vermin and pest violation. Here is how they break down in Brooklyn, most common first; the glossary explains each.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Brooklyn vermin and pest 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-vermin
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches vermin and pest 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: 64,582 vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.