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Provide Dwelling With A Janitor Or Responsible Person Or

HPD order 721 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053 · written Apr 19, 1972 – Jul 30, 2026

HPD has written 5,489 violations under order 721, "Provide Dwelling With A Janitor Or Responsible Person Or", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053. 847 are open right now, 825 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
847
Open past deadline
825
Closed
4,642
All time
5,489
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,087

How order 721 is actually enforced

  • 197 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 33 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 11 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 49 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 379 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 5,489 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.
  • 1,334 notices (24.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-721 violations by borough

MANHATTAN318
BROOKLYN239
BRONX149
QUEENS135
STATEN ISLAND6

The law behind this order

Order 721is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053, "Obligations of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2053 Obligations of owner · Browse open § 27-2053 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.