Cleaning of interior shared space

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011 · cited May 28, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

23,222 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011, which is 0.2% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 4,697 are still open, 3,867 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

4,697

Open past deadline

3,867

Closed

18,525

All time

23,222

Share of attributed

0.2%

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How § 27-2011 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 27-2011 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 248 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 10,061 closed violations.

507 notices (2.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
154 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 32 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
60 repairs were certified after the deadline.
1,064 notices (4.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
8,224 notices (35.4%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 27-2011 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

Cleanse To The Satisfaction Of This Department The Floor · 23,222 · order 553

Open § 27-2011 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		2,009
BRONX		1,370
MANHATTAN		803
QUEENS		427
STATEN ISLAND		88

Buildings with the most open § 27-2011 violations

331 EAST 132 STREET, BRONX · 30 open
2350 WEBSTER AVENUE, BRONX · 20 open
217 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE, BRONX · 11 open
720 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, MANHATTAN · 11 open
2240 WALTON AVENUE, BRONX · 10 open
1890 CROTONA PARKWAY, BRONX · 10 open
701 ELTON AVENUE, BRONX · 9 open
145 ALBANY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 9 open
2381 VALENTINE AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
2865 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open

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Text of NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011

§ 27-2011 Cleaning of interior shared space.

The owner of a dwelling shall maintain the public parts in a clean and sanitary condition.

Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication

Questions people ask about § 27-2011

What is a § 27-2011 violation?

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011, "Cleaning of interior shared space", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of a dwelling shall maintain the public parts in a clean and sanitary condition.

How long does an owner have to fix a § 27-2011 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 23,222 § 27-2011 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 27-2011 violation?

Measured across 10,061 § 27-2011 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 248 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.

How many § 27-2011 violations are open in NYC right now?

4,697 § 27-2011 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 3,867 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.

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