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Receptacles for waste matter in Manhattan

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021 · Manhattan · written May 27, 1976 – Aug 6, 2026

2,500 violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021 in Manhattan, 25.4% of the section's citywide record. 661 are open right now, 629 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
661
Open past deadline
629
Closed
1,839
All time in Manhattan
2,500
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

Manhattan against the citywide record

  • The median repair in Manhattan took 359 days against a median legal deadline of 35 days; the citywide median is 272 days.
  • 81 notices (3.2%) sit at not complied with: HPD re-inspected and found the condition unrepaired. Citywide, that rate is 2.9%.
  • Manhattan accounts for 25.4% of every § 27-2021 violation on record citywide.

Manhattan buildings with the most open § 27-2021 violations

  1. 62 EAST 7 STREET · 7 open
  2. 49 WEST 55 STREET · 6 open
  3. 4 BLEECKER STREET · 5 open
  4. 23 WEST 123 STREET · 4 open
  5. 19 CLEVELAND PLACE · 4 open
  6. 338 WEST 46 STREET · 4 open
  7. 70 ORCHARD STREET · 4 open
  8. 1737 2 AVENUE · 3 open
  9. 119 MAC DOUGAL STREET · 3 open
  10. 62 WEST 124 STREET · 3 open

The law behind these numbers

These are the Manhattan rows of the citywide record for NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2021, "Receptacles for waste matter". The section page carries the statute text, the full enforcement record, and the standard orders HPD writes under it.

§ 27-2021 Receptacles for waste matter citywide · Browse open § 27-2021 records in Manhattan in the live feed · All violation codes

Other boroughs: Brooklyn (1,067 open) · The Bronx (539 open) · Queens (280 open)

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