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Discontinue Use Of Rooms For Living, Disconnect Plumbing Fixtures

HPD order 761 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081 · written Jan 16, 1984 – Jul 31, 2026

HPD has written 5,454 violations under order 761, "Discontinue Use Of Rooms For Living, Disconnect Plumbing Fixtures", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081. 3,117 are open right now, 3,108 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
3,117
Open past deadline
3,108
Closed
2,337
All time
5,454
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 761 is actually enforced

  • 461 notices (8.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 40 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 5 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 65 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,675 notices (30.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 642 notices (11.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-761 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,603
QUEENS641
BRONX548
MANHATTAN314
STATEN ISLAND11

The law behind this order

Order 761is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081, "Occupancy of cellars and basements in multiple dwellings; general requirements". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2081 Occupancy of cellars and basements in multiple dwellings; general requirements · Browse open § 27-2081 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.