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NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 233

NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 233 · cited Aug 31, 1974 – May 7, 2026

415 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 233, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 234 are still open, 234 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
234
Open past deadline
234
Closed
181
All time
415
Share of attributed
0.0%
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How § 233 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 233 notice is 35 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 138 closed violations.

  • 26 notices (6.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 7 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 220 notices (53.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 415 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 43 notices (10.4%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 233 for

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

  1. Remove Door From Closet Leading To Scuttle Opening In · 415 · order 209

Open § 233 violations by borough

BROOKLYN215
BRONX10
MANHATTAN6
QUEENS3

Buildings with the most open § 233 violations

  1. 285 EAST 95 STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  2. 17 ST MARKS PLACE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
  3. 1466 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  4. 451 6 AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  5. 103 HULL STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  6. 1186 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  7. 5A SOMERS STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  8. 337 SOUTH 5 STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  9. 1140 JEFFERSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open
  10. 487 7 AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 2 open

Questions people ask about § 233

How long does an owner have to fix a § 233 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 415 § 233 notices, the median legal deadline was 35 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 233 violation?

Measured across 138 § 233 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 35 days.

Are § 233 violations rent-impairing?

415 of 415 § 233 notices (100.0%) are marked rent-impairing by HPD. When a rent-impairing violation goes unrepaired, New York's Multiple Dwelling Law § 302-a can let tenants deposit rent with the court instead of paying the owner. The specifics depend on the case.

How many § 233 violations are open in NYC right now?

234 § 233 violations are open as of Aug 5, 2026, and 234 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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