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File Plans And Application And Legalize The Following Alteration

HPD order 491 · cites NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300 · written Dec 14, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 49,393 violations under order 491, "File Plans And Application And Legalize The Following Alteration", citing NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. 21,660 are open right now, 21,057 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
21,660
Open past deadline
21,057
Closed
27,733
All time
49,393
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 491 is actually enforced

  • 4,370 notices (8.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 177 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 171 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 15,239 notices (30.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,888 notices (18.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-491 violations by borough

BROOKLYN10,108
MANHATTAN4,477
BRONX4,055
QUEENS2,872
STATEN ISLAND148

The law behind this order

Order 491is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 300 · Browse open § 300 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.