NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300

NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300 · cited Mar 12, 1964 – Aug 6, 2026

55,738 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300, which is 0.5% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 25,384 are still open, 24,738 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

25,384

Open past deadline

24,738

Closed

30,354

All time

55,738

Share of attributed

0.5%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 300 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 300 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 20,494 closed violations.

4,936 notices (8.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
208 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 7 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
233 repairs were certified after the deadline.
18,282 notices (32.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
9,732 notices (17.5%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 300 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

File Plans And Application And Legalize The Following Alteration · 49,421 · order 491
File Plans And Obtain A Certificate Of Occupancy To · 6,317 · order 495

Open § 300 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		11,446
MANHATTAN		5,627
BRONX		4,619
QUEENS		3,505
STATEN ISLAND		187

Buildings with the most open § 300 violations

226 WEST 50 STREET, MANHATTAN · 76 open
315 93 STREET, BROOKLYN · 42 open
354 WEST 56 STREET, MANHATTAN · 36 open
81-38 BAXTER AVENUE, QUEENS · 29 open
546 WEST 165 STREET, MANHATTAN · 28 open
1516 WEST 10 STREET, BROOKLYN · 27 open
4 WATER STREET, BROOKLYN · 26 open
640 MILLER AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
568 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
270 15 STREET, BROOKLYN · 23 open

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Questions people ask about § 300

How long does an owner have to fix a § 300 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 55,738 § 300 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 300 violation?

Measured across 20,494 § 300 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.

How many § 300 violations are open in NYC right now?

25,384 § 300 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 24,738 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.

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