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Discontinue Use Of Rooms For Living, Disconnect Plumbing Fixtures

HPD order 761 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081 · written Jan 16, 1984 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 5,457 violations under order 761, "Discontinue Use Of Rooms For Living, Disconnect Plumbing Fixtures", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081. 3,119 are open right now, 3,110 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
3,119
Open past deadline
3,110
Closed
2,338
All time
5,457
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 761 is actually enforced

  • 463 notices (8.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 40 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 5 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 65 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,675 notices (30.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 642 notices (11.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-761 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,603
QUEENS641
BRONX548
MANHATTAN316
STATEN ISLAND11

Buildings with the most open order-761 violations

  1. 888 EAST 96 STREET, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  2. 118 ELIZABETH STREET, MANHATTAN · 8 open
  3. 17 BAY 22 STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  4. 3349 FENTON AVENUE, BRONX · 6 open
  5. 3355 SEYMOUR AVENUE, BRONX · 6 open
  6. 103-35 109 STREET, QUEENS · 6 open
  7. 456 WEST 47 STREET, MANHATTAN · 6 open
  8. 1021 66 STREET, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  9. 430 68 STREET, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  10. 273 ALBANY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 5 open

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The law behind this order

Order 761is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2081, "Occupancy of cellars and basements in multiple dwellings; general requirements". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2081 Occupancy of cellars and basements in multiple dwellings; general requirements · Browse open § 27-2081 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.