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File Plans And Application And Legalize The Following Alteration

HPD order 491 · cites NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300 · written Dec 14, 1966Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 49,421 violations under order 491, "File Plans And Application And Legalize The Following Alteration", citing NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. 21,673 are open right now, 21,040 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
21,673
Open past deadline
21,040
Closed
27,748
All time
49,421
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 491 is actually enforced

  • 4,374 notices (8.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 177 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 171 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 15,242 notices (30.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,892 notices (18.0%) were dismissed.

Open order-491 violations by borough

BROOKLYN10,115
MANHATTAN4,484
BRONX4,056
QUEENS2,872
STATEN ISLAND146

Buildings with the most open order-491 violations

  1. 226 WEST 50 STREET, MANHATTAN · 49 open
  2. 354 WEST 56 STREET, MANHATTAN · 36 open
  3. 546 WEST 165 STREET, MANHATTAN · 28 open
  4. 1516 WEST 10 STREET, BROOKLYN · 27 open
  5. 81-38 BAXTER AVENUE, QUEENS · 27 open
  6. 640 MILLER AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
  7. 270 15 STREET, BROOKLYN · 23 open
  8. 544 WEST 50 STREET, MANHATTAN · 22 open
  9. 568 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  10. 219 KINGSLAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 22 open

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The law behind this order

Order 491is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

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Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.