NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 62

NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 62 · cited Dec 9, 1965 – Aug 6, 2026

2,726 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 62, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 1,097 are still open, 1,084 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

1,097

Open past deadline

1,084

Closed

1,629

All time

2,726

Share of attributed

0.0%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 62 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 62 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 1,375 closed violations.

132 notices (4.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
12 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.
20 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,806 notices (66.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
252 notices (9.2%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 62 for

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

Rearrange Television And/Or Radio Antenna To Be At Least · 2,360 · order 483
Safeguard Egress By Providing Iron Guard Rails Or Parapet · 366 · order 160

Open § 62 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		742
QUEENS		158
BRONX		98
MANHATTAN		96
STATEN ISLAND		3

Buildings with the most open § 62 violations

2062 70 STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
94 BROOKLYN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
66-61 FRESH POND ROAD, QUEENS · 3 open
753 LIBERTY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
1908 NEWKIRK AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 3 open
76-01 ROOSEVELT AVENUE, QUEENS · 3 open
3376 FENTON AVENUE, BRONX · 3 open
3530 BAINBRIDGE AVENUE, BRONX · 3 open
133 MAC DONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN · 3 open
632 EAST 186 STREET, BRONX · 3 open

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Questions people ask about § 62

How long does an owner have to fix a § 62 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 2,726 § 62 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 62 violation?

Measured across 1,375 § 62 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 § 62 violations are open in NYC right now?

1,097 § 62 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 1,084 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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