Open ViolationsA public record project
/

Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of

HPD order 556 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written May 4, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 562,039 violations under order 556, "Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 106,912 are open right now, 96,792 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
106,912
Open past deadline
96,792
Closed
455,127
All time
562,039
Class C (immediately hazardous)
6

How order 556 is actually enforced

  • 12,596 notices (2.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 2,453 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 496 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,383 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 35,773 notices (6.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 174,681 notices (31.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-556 violations by borough

BROOKLYN39,508
BRONX30,370
MANHATTAN22,755
QUEENS13,260
STATEN ISLAND1,019

The law behind this order

Order 556is 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.