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Repair The Broken Or Defective Plastered Surfaces And Paint

HPD order 508 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Sep 1, 1970 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 1,013,459 violations under order 508, "Repair The Broken Or Defective Plastered Surfaces And Paint", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 203,668 are open right now, 196,302 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
203,668
Open past deadline
196,302
Closed
809,791
All time
1,013,459
Class C (immediately hazardous)
98,703

How order 508 is actually enforced

  • 21,703 notices (2.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 4,817 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 883 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 5,702 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 66,442 notices (6.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 276,698 notices (27.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-508 violations by borough

BROOKLYN72,873
BRONX54,933
MANHATTAN49,724
QUEENS24,225
STATEN ISLAND1,913

The law behind this order

Order 508is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.