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Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings in Queens

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087 · Queens · written Dec 8, 1999 – Aug 6, 2026

4,794 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087 in Queens, 41.0% of the section's citywide record. 3,442 are open right now, 3,425 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
3,442
Open past deadline
3,425
Closed
1,352
All time in Queens
4,794
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Queens against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Queens took 1,471 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 1,500 days.
  • 230 notices (4.8%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 5.6%.
  • Queens accounts for 41.0% of every § 27-2087 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2087 violations

  1. 71-38 71 STREET · 13 open
  2. 47-17 98 PLACE · 7 open
  3. 1812 BLEECKER STREET · 7 open
  4. 86-34 77 STREET · 5 open
  5. 155-04 107 AVENUE · 5 open
  6. 69-18 GOUVERNEUR AVENUE · 5 open
  7. 116-43 168 STREET · 5 open
  8. 32-50 84 STREET · 4 open
  9. 32-19 79 STREET · 4 open
  10. 144-15 111 AVENUE · 4 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2087, "Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2087 Occupancy of cellars and basements in one- and two-family dwellings citywide · Browse open § 27-2087 records in Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (2,901 open) · The Bronx (1,368 open) · Staten Island (470 open)

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