Vacate orders for illegal occupancies over the last year are concentrated in southeast Queens and east Brooklyn

But illegal basement and cellar apartments in most of those neighborhoods are not eligible for the state's new pilot conversion program

Note: Not all vacate orders in the data are for illegal basement apartments, however advocates say the records roughly sketch a picture of the issue.
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