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Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain

HPD order 852 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Apr 6, 2000 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 8,474 violations under order 852, "Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 5,173 are open right now, 5,118 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
5,173
Open past deadline
5,118
Closed
3,301
All time
8,474
Class C (immediately hazardous)
811

How order 852 is actually enforced

  • 165 notices (1.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 81 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 6 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 91 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,171 notices (25.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 542 notices (6.4%) were dismissed.

Open order-852 violations by borough

QUEENS2,183
BROOKLYN1,998
STATEN ISLAND510
BRONX473
MANHATTAN9

Buildings with the most open order-852 violations

  1. 149-11 83 STREET, QUEENS · 20 open
  2. 298 EAST 163 STREET, BRONX · 13 open
  3. 77 HARRISON AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 13 open
  4. 142-11 84 DRIVE, QUEENS · 11 open
  5. 57-55 58 STREET, QUEENS · 10 open
  6. 819 EAST 22 STREET, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  7. 158-12 75 AVENUE, QUEENS · 9 open
  8. 111-10 153 STREET, QUEENS · 8 open
  9. 2455 BEDFORD AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  10. 132-11 BENNETT COURT, QUEENS · 8 open

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The law behind this order

Order 852is 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.