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Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain

HPD order 552 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Jul 28, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 54,406 violations under order 552, "Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 13,190 are open right now, 12,713 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
13,190
Open past deadline
12,713
Closed
41,216
All time
54,406
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,677

How order 552 is actually enforced

  • 1,648 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 343 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 104 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 326 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 10,178 notices (18.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 12,872 notices (23.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-552 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,683
MANHATTAN2,527
BRONX2,097
QUEENS1,696
STATEN ISLAND187

The law behind this order

Order 552is 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.