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Correct The Lead-Based Paint Hazard - Presumed Lead Paint

HPD order 616 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6 · written Aug 23, 2004 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 87,891 violations under order 616, "Correct The Lead-Based Paint Hazard - Presumed Lead Paint", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6. 14,610 are open right now, 14,475 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
14,610
Open past deadline
14,475
Closed
73,281
All time
87,891
Class C (immediately hazardous)
87,891

How order 616 is actually enforced

  • 628 notices (0.7%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 300 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 155 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 16 notices (0.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 466 notices (0.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-616 violations by borough

BRONX5,130
BROOKLYN5,063
MANHATTAN2,468
QUEENS1,792
STATEN ISLAND157

The law behind this order

Order 616is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6, "Violation in a dwelling unit". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2056.6 Violation in a dwelling unit · Browse open § 27-2056.6 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.