When NYC Housing Preservation and Development inspectors visit a building, they don't issue one violation per visit. They issue one for every condition the building gives them.

On May 4, 2026, five Brooklyn buildings gave inspectors a lot to work with. Between them, 531 East 22 Street, 500 St. Johns Place, 2132 Beverly Road, 2955 West 29 Street, and 22 Hawthorne Street produced 166 violations in a single inspection date. The top address alone — 531 East 22 Street, BIN 3120284 — logged 49.

What the city's data shows

HPD's violations dataset recorded 10,759 total violations citywide with an inspection date of May 4, 2026. Brooklyn accounted for 9,717 of them — roughly 90.3% of the citywide total.

Every other borough combined didn't come close. The Bronx recorded 453. Manhattan had 327. Queens logged 216. Staten Island, 46.

The five highest-violation buildings were all in Brooklyn, and all five appeared on the same inspection date:

  • 531 East 22 Street (BIN 3120284): 49 violations
  • 500 St. Johns Place (BIN 3029552): 39 violations
  • 2132 Beverly Road (BIN 3118863): 30 violations
  • 2955 West 29 Street (BIN 3322028): 28 violations
  • 22 Hawthorne Street (BIN 3115656): 20 violations

What the data shows clearly is the outcome. What it doesn't show is cause — whether Monday's Brooklyn concentration reflects a targeted enforcement sweep, a complaint-driven backlog being cleared, the tail end of winter heat-season filings, or some combination of all three. HPD does not publish daily deployment schedules.

What those violation classes actually mean

Not every violation on that list carries the same urgency.

The city classifies HPD violations in four tiers. Class A covers non-hazardous conditions — minor maintenance deficiencies with a 90-day correction window. Class B signals hazardous conditions, with a 30-day deadline. Class C is where the law gets serious: immediately hazardous conditions that require correction within 24 hours in most cases. Class I — the rarest — covers Orders to Repair or Vacate.

Of the 10,759 violations issued citywide on May 4, 9,377 were Class A. That's the largest share by far. But 556 were Class C — conditions the city has already determined pose an immediate risk to health or safety. Twelve were Class I.

The dataset doesn't break these classes down by building. A building with 49 total violations could be carrying a mix of all four tiers, or it could be weighted heavily toward Class C. Tenants in those five addresses need to look at their specific building's record to know what they're dealing with.

What tenants in these buildings should do right now

Every violation logged by HPD is a public record, and it's searchable by address or BIN.

HPD Online — available at hpdonline.nyc.gov — shows every open violation for a given building: what the condition is, when it was issued, which class it carries, and whether the landlord has self-certified a fix. Tenants in any of the five buildings above can pull that record today using the BINs listed here.

Start with Class C. No heat, no hot water, lead paint hazards, vermin, gas leaks — these are the conditions the law treats as requiring immediate correction. If a Class C violation is still listed as open past the 24-hour window, that's documented non-compliance. Landlords can self-certify correction in some cases, but HPD's reinspection may lag the actual repair date.

An open Class C violation changes the tenant's position. It's the kind of documented fact that supports a written repair demand, a rent reduction application through HPD, or an HP action filed in Housing Court — a proceeding that compels a landlord to make repairs under court order.

For any violation class, the first step is the same: get the record in writing. Print it or screenshot it with the date. If you send a repair request to your landlord, send it certified mail or email so there's a timestamp.

The part most people miss

The 166 violations logged across those five Brooklyn buildings aren't abstract enforcement statistics. Each one is attached to a specific condition in a specific unit. The tenants living with those conditions may or may not know the city has already documented them.

HPD's database is public. The awareness of what's in it rarely is.

Data: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (Socrata API endpoint wvxf-dwi5), queried by Weverit on May 6, 2026, filtered to inspectiondate = '2026-05-04'. Violation counts reflect distinct violation records, not distinct inspection visits — a single visit to one building can produce multiple violation records for separate code conditions. Borough and class aggregations computed from raw violation records. Top-building rankings by violation record count per BIN. Class definitions per NYC Housing Maintenance Code Title 27 and HPD published guidance. Live data refreshes daily; query reproducible against NYC Open Data.