HPD order 709 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049 · written Sep 11, 1990 – Aug 5, 2026
HPD has written 1,772 violations under order 709, "Post And Maintain A Street Number On The Front", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049. 544 are open right now, 512 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
544
Open past deadline
512
Closed
1,228
All time
1,772
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0
How order 709 is actually enforced
37 notices (2.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
19 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
18 repairs were certified after the deadline.
254 notices (14.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 709is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2049, "Street numbers". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.