NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 329

NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 329 · cited Jul 23, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

52,848 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 329, which is 0.5% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 19,984 are still open, 19,014 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

19,984

Open past deadline

19,014

Closed

32,864

All time

52,848

Share of attributed

0.5%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 329 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 329 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 19,862 closed violations.

2,527 notices (4.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
620 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 55 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
290 repairs were certified after the deadline.
8,314 notices (15.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
12,868 notices (24.3%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 329 for

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

Provide A Completed Certificate Of Inspection Visits In A · 49,214 · order 484
Provide A Completed Certificate Of Inspection Visits In A · 3,634 · order 485

Open § 329 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		9,049
QUEENS		3,989
MANHATTAN		3,609
BRONX		3,124
STATEN ISLAND		213

Buildings with the most open § 329 violations

201 CHESTNUT STREET, BROOKLYN · 33 open
133 MAC DONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN · 29 open
23-35 29 AVENUE, QUEENS · 23 open
1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 23 open
162 UTICA AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 15 open
1740 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 15 open
2051 WEBSTER AVENUE, BRONX · 15 open
1181 SHERMAN AVENUE, BRONX · 14 open
328 CHAUNCEY STREET, BROOKLYN · 14 open
2909 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 13 open

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Questions people ask about § 329

How long does an owner have to fix a § 329 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 52,848 § 329 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 329 violation?

Measured across 19,862 § 329 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.

How many § 329 violations are open in NYC right now?

19,984 § 329 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 19,014 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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