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Discontinue Unlawful Use For Single Room Occupancy Purposes ..

HPD order 753 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077 · written Nov 11, 1971 – May 20, 2026

HPD has written 1,918 violations under order 753, "Discontinue Unlawful Use For Single Room Occupancy Purposes ..", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077. 653 are open right now, 653 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
653
Open past deadline
653
Closed
1,265
All time
1,918
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 753 is actually enforced

  • 48 notices (2.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 7 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 11 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 196 notices (10.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,918 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.
  • 330 notices (17.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-753 violations by borough

BROOKLYN302
BRONX271
QUEENS50
MANHATTAN28
STATEN ISLAND2

The law behind this order

Order 753is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077, "Conversions to rooming units prohibited". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2077 Conversions to rooming units prohibited · Browse open § 27-2077 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.