NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2028 · cited Jun 27, 1967 – Jul 15, 2026
12,613 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2028, which is 0.1% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 1,321 are still open, 1,320 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2028 notice is 0 days. The median violation that got fixed took 36 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 6,200 closed violations.
Owners must provide heat to tenant-occupied buildings from an approved central heating system. Individual gas or electric heaters for each apartment can substitute only if the city has approved them.
Install or repair the required heating system as the notice describes, then certify the correction to HPD before the deadline.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 590 | |
|---|---|---|
| MANHATTAN | 247 | |
| BRONX | 222 | |
| QUEENS | 211 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 51 |
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§ 27-2028 Central heat or electric or gas heating system; when required.
Except as otherwise provided in this article, every multiple dwelling and every tenant-occupied one or two-family dwelling shall be provided with heat from a central heating system constructed in accordance with the provisions of the building code and the regulations of the department. A system of gas or electric heating provided for each dwelling unit may, if approved by the department, be utilized in lieu of a central heating system if: (1)the system is lawfully in use on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven; or (2)the system is approved by the appropriate city agencies having jurisdiction and is installed in a structure or building erected, converted, substantially rehabilitated, or completely vacated, after July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2028, "Required heating systems", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Owners must provide heat to tenant-occupied buildings from an approved central heating system. Individual gas or electric heaters for each apartment can substitute only if the city has approved them.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 12,613 § 27-2028 notices, the median legal deadline was 0 days from the notice date.
Measured across 6,200 § 27-2028 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 36 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 0 days.
74 of 12,613 § 27-2028 notices (0.6%) are marked rent-impairing by HPD. When a rent-impairing violation goes unrepaired, New York's Multiple Dwelling Law § 302-a can let tenants deposit rent with the court instead of paying the owner. The specifics depend on the case.
1,321 § 27-2028 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 1,320 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.
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