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Provide An Approved And Operational Smoke Detecting Device, Installed

HPD order 701 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045 · written Mar 8, 1982 – Jul 15, 2026

HPD has written 10,426 violations under order 701, "Provide An Approved And Operational Smoke Detecting Device, Installed", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045. 4,284 are open right now, 4,280 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,284
Open past deadline
4,280
Closed
6,142
All time
10,426
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 701 is actually enforced

  • 274 notices (2.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 26 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 4 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 195 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 7,568 notices (72.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,065 notices (10.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-701 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,389
MANHATTAN1,079
QUEENS442
BRONX338
STATEN ISLAND36

Buildings with the most open order-701 violations

  1. 506 WEST 135 STREET, MANHATTAN · 20 open
  2. 566 WEST 191 STREET, MANHATTAN · 18 open
  3. 415 WEST 128 STREET, MANHATTAN · 16 open
  4. 249 RYERSON STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  5. 1196 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  6. 530 WEST 144 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  7. 161 WEST 140 STREET, MANHATTAN · 9 open
  8. 2 WEBSTER AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  9. 94 PROSPECT PARK WEST, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  10. 231 WEST 116 STREET, MANHATTAN · 8 open

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The law behind this order

Order 701is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045, "Duties of owner and occupant with respect to installation and maintenance of smoke detecting devices, carbon monoxide detecting devices and natural gas detecting devices". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2045 Duties of owner and occupant with respect to installation and maintenance of smoke detecting devices, carbon monoxide detecting devices and natural gas detecting devices · Browse open § 27-2045 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.