Open ViolationsA public record project
/

Discontinue Unlawful Use For Single Room Occupancy Purposes ..

HPD order 753 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077 · written Nov 11, 1971 – May 20, 2026

HPD has written 1,918 violations under order 753, "Discontinue Unlawful Use For Single Room Occupancy Purposes ..", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077. 653 are open right now, 653 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
653
Open past deadline
653
Closed
1,265
All time
1,918
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 753 is actually enforced

  • 48 notices (2.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 7 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 11 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 196 notices (10.2%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,918 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.
  • 330 notices (17.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-753 violations by borough

BROOKLYN302
BRONX271
QUEENS50
MANHATTAN28
STATEN ISLAND2

Buildings with the most open order-753 violations

  1. 1881 PITKIN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
  2. 913 ST MARKS AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 18 open
  3. 631 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN · 16 open
  4. 1360 TELLER AVENUE, BRONX · 15 open
  5. 281 WYONA STREET, BROOKLYN · 14 open
  6. 1329 ST JOHNS PLACE, BROOKLYN · 12 open
  7. 104-29 164 STREET, QUEENS · 11 open
  8. 959 EAST 156 STREET, BRONX · 10 open
  9. 1517 MORRIS AVENUE, BRONX · 10 open
  10. 17 THOMAS ST, BRONX · 10 open

Open order-753 records, newest first

Loading records…

ActiveStatusOpen only
openviolations.org/nyc/housing-code/27-2077-conversions-to-rooming-units-prohibited/753-discontinue-unlawful-use-for-single-room-occupancy-purposes

The law behind this order

Order 753is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2077, "Conversions to rooming units prohibited". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2077 Conversions to rooming units prohibited · Browse open § 27-2077 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.