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Obligations of owner in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053 · Manhattan · written Apr 19, 1972 – Aug 6, 2026

13,405 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053 in Manhattan, 41.3% of the section's citywide record. 2,935 are open right now, 2,807 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,935
Open past deadline
2,807
Closed
10,470
All time in Manhattan
13,405
Class C (immediately hazardous)
568

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 419 days against a median legal deadline of 95 days; the citywide median is 369 days.
  • 704 notices (5.3%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 4.5%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 41.3% of every § 27-2053 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2053 violations

  1. 171 EAST 99 STREET · 11 open
  2. 406 WEST 25 STREET · 11 open
  3. 320 WEST 96 STREET · 8 open
  4. 168 EAST 82 STREET · 7 open
  5. 240 EAST 2 STREET · 7 open
  6. 56 MARKET STREET · 6 open
  7. 1600 3 AVENUE · 6 open
  8. 26 1 AVENUE · 6 open
  9. 316 WEST 36 STREET · 6 open
  10. 169 EAST 99 STREET · 6 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053, "Obligations of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2053 Obligations of owner citywide · Browse open § 27-2053 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (1,560 open) · The Bronx (1,641 open) · Queens (1,043 open)

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