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Reoccupancy after vacate order in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 · Manhattan · written Sep 11, 1978 – Aug 3, 2026

3,082 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 in Manhattan, 18.1% of the section's citywide record. 616 are open right now, 36 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
616
Open past deadline
36
Closed
2,466
All time in Manhattan
3,082
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 278 days against a median legal deadline of 60 days; the citywide median is 273 days.
  • 33 notices (1.1%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.5%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 18.1% of every § 27-2142 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2142 violations

  1. 117 WEST 142 STREET · 26 open
  2. 526 EAST 82 STREET · 23 open
  3. 568 WEST 173 STREET · 22 open
  4. 182 HESTER STREET · 21 open
  5. 960 AMSTERDAM AVENUE · 21 open
  6. 1855 7 AVENUE · 13 open
  7. 106 FT WASHINGTON AVENUE · 12 open
  8. 2337 1 AVENUE · 12 open
  9. 543 WEST 125 STREET · 11 open
  10. 131 WEST 118 STREET · 11 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142, "Reoccupancy after vacate order". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2142 Reoccupancy after vacate order citywide · Browse open § 27-2142 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (1,520 open) · Brooklyn (2,143 open) · Queens (1,839 open) · Staten Island (232 open)

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