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Trace And Repair The Source And Abate The Visible

HPD order 550 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3 · written Aug 26, 2004 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 363,122 violations under order 550, "Trace And Repair The Source And Abate The Visible", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3. 91,175 are open right now, 85,550 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
91,175
Open past deadline
85,550
Closed
271,947
All time
363,122
Class C (immediately hazardous)
39,842

How order 550 is actually enforced

  • 5,527 notices (1.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 956 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 65 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,636 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,301 notices (0.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 62,302 notices (17.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-550 violations by borough

BRONX31,380
BROOKLYN30,516
MANHATTAN13,810
QUEENS12,687
STATEN ISLAND2,782

The law behind this order

Order 550is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3, "Violation for visible mold". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2017.3 Violation for visible mold · Browse open § 27-2017.3 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.