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Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain

HPD order 852 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Apr 6, 2000 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 8,472 violations under order 852, "Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 5,172 are open right now, 5,121 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
5,172
Open past deadline
5,121
Closed
3,300
All time
8,472
Class C (immediately hazardous)
811

How order 852 is actually enforced

  • 168 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 81 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 91 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,169 notices (25.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 542 notices (6.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-852 violations by borough

QUEENS2,184
BROOKLYN1,998
STATEN ISLAND508
BRONX473
MANHATTAN9

The law behind this order

Order 852is 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.