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Ulations. Scrape And Remove Rust Scales And Paint With

HPD order 561 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014 · written Dec 29, 1972 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 17,537 violations under order 561, "Ulations. Scrape And Remove Rust Scales And Paint With", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014. 5,664 are open right now, 5,127 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
5,664
Open past deadline
5,127
Closed
11,873
All time
17,537
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1

How order 561 is actually enforced

  • 1,660 notices (9.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 83 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 25 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 75 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 3,304 notices (18.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 3,313 notices (18.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-561 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,411
MANHATTAN1,461
BRONX1,118
QUEENS640
STATEN ISLAND34

The law behind this order

Order 561is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014, "Window frames and fire escapes". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2014 Window frames and fire escapes · Browse open § 27-2014 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.