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Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department

HPD order 851 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Nov 28, 2000 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 2,222 violations under order 851, "Cleanse And Disinfect To The Satisfaction Of This Department", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 1,040 are open right now, 1,035 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,040
Open past deadline
1,035
Closed
1,182
All time
2,222
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,384

How order 851 is actually enforced

  • 12 notices (0.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 7 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 35 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 731 notices (32.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 114 notices (5.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-851 violations by borough

BROOKLYN502
QUEENS370
BRONX85
STATEN ISLAND82
MANHATTAN1

Buildings with the most open order-851 violations

  1. 571 RALPH AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  2. 469 VERMONT STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  3. 142-71 123 AVENUE, QUEENS · 5 open
  4. 437C PULASKI STREET, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  5. 1215 BEDFORD AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 5 open
  6. 1040 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  7. 299 ALBANY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  8. 2413 BATH AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 4 open
  9. 104-11 177 STREET, QUEENS · 3 open
  10. 109-48 132 STREET, QUEENS · 3 open

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The law behind this order

Order 851is 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.