NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2051 · cited Dec 4, 1975 – Apr 15, 2026
256 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2051, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 140 are still open, 140 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2051 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 78 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| MANHATTAN | 71 | |
|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN | 44 | |
| BRONX | 22 | |
| QUEENS | 2 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 1 |
§ 27-2051 Maintenance of rooming units.
A manager, who may be the owner, shall reside in every rooming house or multiple dwelling used for single room occupancy, except that two adjoining or connected rooming houses may be under the same supervision. The manager shall be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the dwelling.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2051, "Maintenance of rooming units", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. A manager, who may be the owner, shall reside in every rooming house or multiple dwelling used for single room occupancy, except that two adjoining or connected rooming houses may be under the same supervision. The manager shall be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the dwelling.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 256 § 27-2051 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 78 § 27-2051 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
256 of 256 § 27-2051 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.
140 § 27-2051 violations are open as of Aug 5, 2026, and 140 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
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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