Provide Dwelling With A Janitor Or Responsible Person Or
HPD order 721 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053 · written Apr 19, 1972 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 5,493 violations under order 721, "Provide Dwelling With A Janitor Or Responsible Person Or", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053. 845 are open right now, 822 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
845
Open past deadline
822
Closed
4,648
All time
5,493
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,087
How order 721 is actually enforced
198 notices (3.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
33 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 11 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
49 repairs were certified after the deadline.
379 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
5,493 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
Order 721is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2053, "Obligations of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.