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NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049 · cited Sep 11, 1990 – Aug 5, 2026

2,126 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 767 are still open, 731 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

767

Open past deadline

731

Closed

1,359

All time

2,126

Share of attributed

0.0%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 27-2049 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 27-2049 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 328 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 863 closed violations.

44 notices (2.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
23 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.
24 repairs were certified after the deadline.
334 notices (15.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
490 notices (23.0%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 27-2049 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

Post And Maintain A Street Number On The Front · 1,772 · order 709
Post And Maintain A Street Number On The Front · 354 · order 1009

Open § 27-2049 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		374
QUEENS		220
MANHATTAN		81
BRONX		77
STATEN ISLAND		15

Buildings with the most open § 27-2049 violations

416 BEACH 38 STREET, QUEENS · 3 open
87-01 51 AVENUE, QUEENS · 3 open
1410 YORK AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 3 open
118 PIERREPONT STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
2132 BEVERLY ROAD, BROOKLYN · 3 open
153-16 SOUTH ROAD, QUEENS · 3 open
477 VAN BUREN STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
545 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 2 open
57-25 ARVERNE BOULEVARD, QUEENS · 2 open
212 BEACH 32 STREET, QUEENS · 2 open

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Text of NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049

§ 27-2049 Street numbers.

The owner of a dwelling shall post and maintain street numbers on the dwelling, which are plainly visible from the sidewalk in front of the dwelling, in accordance with section 3-505 of the administrative code and the rules and regulations issued by the borough presidents thereunder.

Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication

Questions people ask about § 27-2049

What is a § 27-2049 violation?

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049, "Street numbers", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of a dwelling shall post and maintain street numbers on the dwelling, which are plainly visible from the sidewalk in front of the dwelling, in accordance with section 3-505 of the administrative code and the rules and regulations issued by the borough presidents thereunder.

How long does an owner have to fix a § 27-2049 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 2,126 § 27-2049 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 27-2049 violation?

Measured across 863 § 27-2049 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 328 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.

How many § 27-2049 violations are open in NYC right now?

767 § 27-2049 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 731 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

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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