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Abate The Infestation Consisting Of Roaches In The Entire

HPD order 868 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 · written Oct 5, 2009 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 21,261 violations under order 868, "Abate The Infestation Consisting Of Roaches In The Entire", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018. 13,804 are open right now, 13,673 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
13,804
Open past deadline
13,673
Closed
7,457
All time
21,261
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 868 is actually enforced

  • 641 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 386 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 17 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 321 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 357 notices (1.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,712 notices (12.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-868 violations by borough

BROOKLYN5,271
QUEENS4,742
BRONX2,445
STATEN ISLAND1,317
MANHATTAN29

The law behind this order

Order 868is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018, "Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2018 Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination · Browse open § 27-2018 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.