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Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department

HPD order 551 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Jun 22, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 9,373 violations under order 551, "Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 1,854 are open right now, 1,803 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,854
Open past deadline
1,803
Closed
7,519
All time
9,373
Class C (immediately hazardous)
3,350

How order 551 is actually enforced

  • 186 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 35 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 8 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 66 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,186 notices (12.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 9,373 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 1,716 notices (18.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-551 violations by borough

BROOKLYN794
BRONX434
MANHATTAN349
QUEENS249
STATEN ISLAND28

Buildings with the most open order-551 violations

  1. 331 EAST 132 STREET, BRONX · 8 open
  2. 553 HOWARD AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  3. 2501 NEWKIRK AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  4. 2026 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  5. 41-15 46 STREET, QUEENS · 6 open
  6. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 6 open
  7. 128 THOMAS S BOYLAND STREET, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  8. 737 CONEY ISLAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  9. 2068 5 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 5 open
  10. 2516 NEWKIRK AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 5 open

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The law behind this order

Order 551is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010, "Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2010 Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces · Browse open § 27-2010 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.