At New York City’s most recent tax lien sale, on June 3, 2025, the city sold the liens on 96 properties in Bushwick’s Community Board 4, according to the Department of Finance’s lien sale lists. No sale is coming this year: the Mamdani administration is not holding one in 2026, the city’s Independent Budget Office reported in April.

The sale’s final list, published by the department on NYC Open Data, included 1,663 Brooklyn properties. By ZIP code, it counted 96 properties in 11221 and 29 in 11237, the two ZIP codes most associated with Bushwick, for 125 in all. ZIP code 11221 is shared with Bedford-Stuyvesant, though: 45 of its 96 properties are in Bushwick’s Community Board 4 and 51 are in Community Board 3. The list also counted 36 properties in 11206 and 128 in 11207, most of them outside Bushwick.

A lien is a legal claim against a property for unpaid property taxes or other property charges, and the sale transfers those unpaid debts to an authorized buyer, according to the Department of Finance. It is not a sale of the property, the department says, but if the debts are not paid or resolved, the new lienholder can begin a foreclosure proceeding in court.