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Cleanse To The Satisfaction Of This Department The Floor

HPD order 553 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011 · written May 28, 1974 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 23,197 violations under order 553, "Cleanse To The Satisfaction Of This Department The Floor", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011. 4,709 are open right now, 3,897 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,709
Open past deadline
3,897
Closed
18,488
All time
23,197
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 553 is actually enforced

  • 494 notices (2.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 154 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 32 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 60 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,062 notices (4.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 8,220 notices (35.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-553 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,015
BRONX1,382
MANHATTAN793
QUEENS426
STATEN ISLAND93

The law behind this order

Order 553is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011, "Cleaning of interior shared space". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2011 Cleaning of interior shared space · Browse open § 27-2011 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.