Vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn.
HPD has written 63,214 vermin and pest violations in Brooklyn, 29.4% of the city’s total.
See what is open on one building.
59,859 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. 12,723 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 821 Brooklyn case files across all categories, and 438 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 17. 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 58,703 Class C vermin and pest violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 4,507 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 4 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
Class C is 92.9% of the 63,214 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 29,166, the violations certified corrected out of 58,703, 49.7%, filed at a median of 26 days and a 90th percentile of 35. The other is 12,723, the violations past a year with no certification at all.
The status that follows a missed deadline is Not Complied With: no accepted certification by the certify-by date. It sits on 7.2% 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, and the missed window stays visible. Paperwork HPD finds insufficient becomes Defect Letter Issued, to be filed again. A certification an inspector contradicts becomes Invalid Certification. Every one of those has a page in the glossary.
Brooklyn against the rest of New York City
Citywide, HPD has written 215,254 vermin and pest violations. 63,214 of them are in Brooklyn, 29.4%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.
| Borough | Vermin and pest violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 91,391 |
| Brooklyn | 63,214 |
| Manhattan | 34,943 |
| Queens | 20,971 |
| Staten Island | 4,735 |
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 | 824 |
| Nostrand Avenue | 506 |
| Linden Boulevard | 500 |
| Eastern Parkway | 457 |
| Fulton Street | 419 |
| Lincoln Avenue | 402 |
| East 21 Street | 378 |
| St Johns Place | 332 |
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 2,140 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 September 27, 2026.
- 456 41 Street, Brooklyn 4 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 426 49 Street, Brooklyn 8 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 580 52 Street, Brooklyn 4 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 2331 Dean Street, Brooklyn 8 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 240 East 18 Street, Brooklyn 18 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 5 East 93 Street, Brooklyn 219 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 1052 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn 8 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 36 Euclid Avenue, Brooklyn 8 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 1449 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 48 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 152 Marcus Garvey Boulevard, Brooklyn 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 1821 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn 3 open Class C vermin and pest violations
- 556 Thomas S Boyland Street, Brooklyn 4 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 September 27, 2026, read on September 29, 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: 63,214 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.