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Duties of owner in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · Manhattan · written Mar 5, 1963 – Aug 6, 2026

1,047,596 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 in Manhattan, 21.1% of the section's citywide record. 206,294 are open right now, 200,379 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
206,294
Open past deadline
200,379
Closed
841,302
All time in Manhattan
1,047,596
Class C (immediately hazardous)
219,892

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 409 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 363 days.
  • 26,141 notices (2.5%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.4%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 21.1% of every § 27-2005 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2005 violations

  1. 438 WEST 164 STREET · 440 open
  2. 2541 7 AVENUE · 439 open
  3. 700 LENOX AVENUE · 413 open
  4. 530 WEST 144 STREET · 392 open
  5. 533 WEST 145 STREET · 381 open
  6. 161 WEST 140 STREET · 370 open
  7. 2034 7 AVENUE · 340 open
  8. 63 MORNINGSIDE AVENUE · 330 open
  9. 415 WEST 128 STREET · 319 open
  10. 231 WEST 116 STREET · 312 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner citywide · Browse open § 27-2005 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (474,030 open) · The Bronx (260,709 open) · Queens (187,733 open) · Staten Island (31,197 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Manhattan rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.