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Post And Maintain A Street Number On The Front

HPD order 709 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049 · written Sep 11, 1990 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 1,772 violations under order 709, "Post And Maintain A Street Number On The Front", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049. 545 are open right now, 514 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
545
Open past deadline
514
Closed
1,227
All time
1,772
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 709 is actually enforced

  • 37 notices (2.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 19 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 18 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 253 notices (14.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 462 notices (26.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-709 violations by borough

BROOKLYN310
QUEENS85
MANHATTAN81
BRONX64
STATEN ISLAND5

The law behind this order

Order 709is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049, "Street numbers". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2049 Street numbers · Browse open § 27-2049 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.