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NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 178

NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 178 · cited Nov 6, 1978 – Dec 17, 2025

532 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 178, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 345 are still open, 345 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
345
Open past deadline
345
Closed
187
All time
532
Share of attributed
0.0%
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How § 178 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 178 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 150 closed violations.

  • 28 notices (5.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 1 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 3 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 439 notices (82.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 37 notices (7.0%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 178 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

  1. Make Effective The Light And Ventilation Of Skylight By · 389 · order 11
  2. Provide A Ventilating Skylight Directly Over The Stairwell At · 71 · order 8
  3. Provide Skylight Ventilation Of At Least 40 Sq.in. Or · 52 · order 10
  4. Provide Fixed Ventilation Of At Least 40 Sq.in. Directly · 20 · order 7

Open § 178 violations by borough

BROOKLYN312
MANHATTAN18
QUEENS9
BRONX4
STATEN ISLAND2

Buildings with the most open § 178 violations

  1. 134A NEWEL STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  2. 268 CORNELIA STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  3. 132 WEST 4 STREET, MANHATTAN · 2 open
  4. 37 ST NICHOLAS AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  5. 151 RODNEY STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  6. 156 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  7. 252 WEST 75 STREET, MANHATTAN · 2 open
  8. 232 JEFFERSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  9. 21 STANLEY AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 2 open
  10. 272 PROSPECT PARK WEST, BROOKLYN · 1 open

Questions people ask about § 178

How long does an owner have to fix a § 178 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 532 § 178 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 178 violation?

Measured across 150 § 178 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.

How many § 178 violations are open in NYC right now?

345 § 178 violations are open as of Aug 5, 2026, and 345 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,124,402 of the city’s 11,129,441 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.

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