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Post And Maintain A Proper Sign On Wall Of

HPD order 778 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104 · written Apr 6, 1973 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 48,791 violations under order 778, "Post And Maintain A Proper Sign On Wall Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104. 16,476 are open right now, 15,526 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
16,476
Open past deadline
15,526
Closed
32,315
All time
48,791
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 778 is actually enforced

  • 2,384 notices (4.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 622 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 62 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 258 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,169 notices (10.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 12,870 notices (26.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-778 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,187
QUEENS3,468
MANHATTAN2,960
BRONX2,655
STATEN ISLAND206

Buildings with the most open order-778 violations

  1. 201 CHESTNUT STREET, BROOKLYN · 31 open
  2. 133 MAC DONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN · 23 open
  3. 23-35 29 AVENUE, QUEENS · 20 open
  4. 1740 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 15 open
  5. 320 WEST 96 STREET, MANHATTAN · 13 open
  6. 162 UTICA AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 13 open
  7. 1455 SEABURY PLACE, BRONX · 12 open
  8. 1181 SHERMAN AVENUE, BRONX · 12 open
  9. 2115 EAST 1 STREET, BROOKLYN · 12 open
  10. 342 EAST 139 STREET, BRONX · 12 open

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The law behind this order

Order 778is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2104, "Posting of serial number and sign regarding rent stabilized dwelling units". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2104 Posting of serial number and sign regarding rent stabilized dwelling units · Browse open § 27-2104 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.