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Remove Or Cover In A Manner Approved By The

HPD order 555 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written May 24, 1982 – Jun 6, 2007

HPD has written 29,725 violations under order 555, "Remove Or Cover In A Manner Approved By The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 12,212 are open right now, 12,212 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
12,212
Open past deadline
12,212
Closed
17,513
All time
29,725
Class C (immediately hazardous)
29,725

How order 555 is actually enforced

  • 583 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 157 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 157 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 479 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 271 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 565 notices (1.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-555 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,037
MANHATTAN2,969
BRONX2,167
QUEENS1,033
STATEN ISLAND6

The law behind this order

Order 555is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013, "Painting of public parts and within dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2013 Painting of public parts and within dwellings · Browse open § 27-2013 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.