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Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of

HPD order 856 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written Feb 7, 2000 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 24,935 violations under order 856, "Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 15,519 are open right now, 15,079 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
15,519
Open past deadline
15,079
Closed
9,416
All time
24,935
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 856 is actually enforced

  • 460 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 250 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 4 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 146 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,347 notices (21.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,657 notices (10.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-856 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,564
QUEENS4,720
BRONX2,686
STATEN ISLAND1,497
MANHATTAN52

The law behind this order

Order 856is 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.