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Reoccupancy after vacate order in Queens

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 · Queens · written Apr 13, 1981 – Aug 3, 2026

3,302 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 in Queens, 19.4% of the section's citywide record. 1,839 are open right now, 39 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,839
Open past deadline
39
Closed
1,463
All time in Queens
3,302
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Queens against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Queens took 323 days against a median legal deadline of 100 days; the citywide median is 273 days.
  • 211 notices (6.4%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 3.5%.
  • Queens accounts for 19.4% of every § 27-2142 violation on record citywide.

Queens buildings with the most open § 27-2142 violations

  1. 43-09 47 AVENUE · 107 open
  2. 41-40 DENMAN STREET · 60 open
  3. 75-02 37 AVENUE · 25 open
  4. 39-06 63 STREET · 17 open
  5. 89-23 171 STREET · 15 open
  6. 75-02 BLAKE AVENUE · 7 open
  7. 22-47 CORNAGA AVENUE · 6 open
  8. 90-31 WHITNEY AVENUE · 6 open
  9. 64-50 185 STREET · 5 open
  10. 157-15 110 AVENUE · 5 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Queens 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 Queens in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (1,520 open) · Brooklyn (2,143 open) · Manhattan (616 open) · Staten Island (232 open)

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