NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2033 · cited Mar 21, 1983 – Aug 6, 2026
162,704 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2033, which is 1.5% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 47,328 are still open, 47,199 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2033 notice is 6 days. The median violation that got fixed took 430 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 74,388 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 20,248 | |
|---|---|---|
| BRONX | 11,039 | |
| MANHATTAN | 9,554 | |
| QUEENS | 6,230 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 257 |
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§ 27-2033 Access to boiler room.
a. The owner of every multiple dwelling shall have the area, where the building's heating system is located, readily accessible to members of the department to make inspection pursuant to this chapter. In the event such area is kept under lock, a key shall be kept on the premises at all times with such person as the owner shall designate; however, if there is a person residing on the premises who performs janitorial services, such person shall hold the key. The owner shall post a notice in a form approved by the department naming such designated person and his or her location.
b. Multiple dwellings owned and operated by the New York city housing authority shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2033, "Access to boiler room", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of every multiple dwelling shall have the area, where the building's heating system is located, readily accessible to members of the department to make inspection pursuant to this chapter. In the event such area is kept under lock, a key shall be kept on the premises at all times with such person as the owner shall designate; however, if there is a person residing on the premises who performs janitorial services, such person shall hold the key. The owner shall post a notice in a form approved by the department naming such designated person and his or her location.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 162,704 § 27-2033 notices, the median legal deadline was 6 days from the notice date.
Measured across 74,388 § 27-2033 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 430 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 6 days.
47,328 § 27-2033 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 47,199 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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