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Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department

HPD order 551 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Jun 22, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 9,371 violations under order 551, "Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 1,859 are open right now, 1,800 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,859
Open past deadline
1,800
Closed
7,512
All time
9,371
Class C (immediately hazardous)
3,349

How order 551 is actually enforced

  • 179 notices (1.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 35 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 8 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 66 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,186 notices (12.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 9,371 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 1,716 notices (18.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-551 violations by borough

BROOKLYN794
BRONX439
MANHATTAN349
QUEENS249
STATEN ISLAND28

The law behind this order

Order 551is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010, "Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2010 Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces · Browse open § 27-2010 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.