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Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 · Manhattan · written Sep 20, 1965 – Aug 6, 2026

130,617 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 in Manhattan, 17.5% of the section's citywide record. 33,776 are open right now, 33,087 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
33,776
Open past deadline
33,087
Closed
96,841
All time in Manhattan
130,617
Class C (immediately hazardous)
80,369

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 663 days against a median legal deadline of 26 days; the citywide median is 618 days.
  • 5,271 notices (4.0%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 4.5%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 17.5% of every § 27-2018 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2018 violations

  1. 107 EAST 126 STREET · 115 open
  2. 2310 1 AVENUE · 75 open
  3. 2809 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARD · 73 open
  4. 621 WATER STREET · 71 open
  5. 325 EAST 92 STREET · 70 open
  6. 208 WEST 151 STREET · 69 open
  7. 112 EAST 128 STREET · 69 open
  8. 700 LENOX AVENUE · 68 open
  9. 29 EAST 2 STREET · 68 open
  10. 254 WEST 154 STREET · 64 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018, "Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2018 Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination citywide · Browse open § 27-2018 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: The Bronx (69,264 open) · Brooklyn (83,832 open) · Queens (32,913 open) · Staten Island (5,809 open)

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset, Manhattan rows only. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.