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Post And Maintain A Proper Sign On Wall Of

HPD order 778 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104 · written Apr 6, 1973 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 48,771 violations under order 778, "Post And Maintain A Proper Sign On Wall Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104. 16,482 are open right now, 15,553 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
16,482
Open past deadline
15,553
Closed
32,289
All time
48,771
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 778 is actually enforced

  • 2,384 notices (4.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 620 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 62 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 258 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,158 notices (10.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 12,870 notices (26.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-778 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,188
QUEENS3,467
MANHATTAN2,962
BRONX2,661
STATEN ISLAND204

The law behind this order

Order 778is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104, "Posting of serial number and sign regarding rent stabilized dwelling units". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2104 Posting of serial number and sign regarding rent stabilized dwelling units · Browse open § 27-2104 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.