Pursuant to New York City’s Housing Maintenance Code, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issues violations against conditions, in rental dwelling units and buildings, that have been verified to violate the New York City Housing Maintenance Code (HMC) or the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL).
Each row in this dataset contains discrete information about one violation of the New York City Housing Maintenance Code or New York State Multiple Dwelling Law. Each violation is identified using a unique Violation ID. These Laws are in place to provide requirements for the maintenance of residential dwelling units within New York City.
Violations are issued by Housing Inspectors after a physical inspection is conducted (except for class I violations which are generally administratively issued). Violations are issued in four classes: Class A (non-hazardous), Class B (hazardous), Class C (immediately hazardous) and Class I (information orders). For more information on violations, see https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/owners/compliance-clear-violations.page
The base data for this file is all violations open as of October 1, 2012. Violation data is updated daily. The daily update includes both new violations and updates to the status of previously issued violations. An open violation is a violation which is still active on the Department records. See the status table for determining how to filter for open violations versus closed violations, and within open violations for a more detailed current status.
The property owner may or may not have corrected the physical condition if the status is open. The violation status is closed when the violation is observed/verified as corrected by HPD or as certified by the landlord. The processes for having violations dismissed are described at http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/owners/compliance-clear-violations.page
Using other HPD datasets, such as the Building File or the Registration File, a user can link together violations issued for given buildings or for given owners.

Pursuant to New York City’s Housing Maintenance Code, the Department of Housing
Preservation and Development (HPD) collects registration information from owners of
residential rental units. Owners are required to register if they own residential buildings
with three or more units or if they own one- or two-family homes and neither they nor
members of their immediate family live there. Registrations are required upon taking
ownership of a qualifying building, and once a year thereafter.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Housing Litigation Division (HLD) initiates' actions in the Housing Court against owners of privately-owned buildings to enforce compliance with the housing quality standards contained in the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law and the New York City Housing Maintenance Code. HLD attorneys also represent HPD when tenants initiate actions against private owners. HPD is automatically named as party to such actions. The goal of these court proceedings is to obtain enforceable Orders to Correct, Civil Penalties (fines) and Contempt Sanctions, compelling owners to comply with the Housing Code.

Pursuant to New York City’s Housing Maintenance Code, the Department of Housing
Preservation and Development (HPD) collects information on multiple dwellings in New York
City, and other buildings that fall under its jurisdiction. HPD’s Buildings Open Data covers all
buildings which meet any of the following criteria:

a. HPD has required the owner to register the building under the Housing Maintenance
Code (HMC)
b. HPD has initiated a litigation action under the HMC
c. HPD has received a complaint for the building
d. HPD has initiated a work order for the purposes of emergency repair, demolition, or
the Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP) for the building
e. HPD has added the property to the AEP program

Buildings are identified by a BuildingID.

Contains information about organizations or individuals listed on a Multiple Dwelling Registration form.

The data set contains information on work orders created through HPD's Emergency Repair Program, Alternative Enforcement Program and Demolition programs and fees assessed against properties by HPD pursuant to the Housing Maintenance Code. The work orders are created to conduct emergency repair work when an owner fails to address a hazardous condition pursuant to the requirements of an HPD-issued violation, a Department of Buildings Declaration of Emergency, a Department of Health Commissioner's Order to Abate or an emergency violation issued by another City Agency. The work orders may be issued to a private vendor following the City's Procurement Rules or may be conducted by agency staff.

This is part of the HPD Charge Data collection of data tables.

Contains information about work orders created to conduct emergency repair work when an owner fails to address a hazardous condition pursuant to the requirements of an HPD issued violation. HPD issues violations when an owner fails to address a condition pursuant New York City Housing Maintenance Code (HMC) or the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL), a Department of Buildings Declaration of Emergency, a Department of Health Commissioner's Order to Abate or an emergency violation issued by another City Agency. The work orders were carried out by agency staff.

This is part of the HPD Charge Data collection of data tables.

Contains information about invoices submitted to HPD by private contractors under an OMO.

This is part of the HPD Charge Data collection of data tables.

Contains information about fees assessed against properties by HPD pursuant to the Housing Maintenance Code.

A list of contractors and subcontractors who are ineligible for inclusion on any HPD prequalified list(s) for housing development projects due to a failure to provide the wage reporting information required by Local Law 44 of 2012 (LL44). Information about LL44 is available on HPD’s LL44 webpage: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/transparency-ll44.page