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Cleanse To The Satisfaction Of This Department The Floor

HPD order 553 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011 · written May 28, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 23,222 violations under order 553, "Cleanse To The Satisfaction Of This Department The Floor", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011. 4,697 are open right now, 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
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 553 is actually enforced

  • 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.

Open order-553 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,009
BRONX1,370
MANHATTAN803
QUEENS427
STATEN ISLAND88

Buildings with the most open order-553 violations

  1. 331 EAST 132 STREET, BRONX · 30 open
  2. 2350 WEBSTER AVENUE, BRONX · 20 open
  3. 217 EAST BURNSIDE AVENUE, BRONX · 11 open
  4. 720 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, MANHATTAN · 11 open
  5. 2240 WALTON AVENUE, BRONX · 10 open
  6. 1890 CROTONA PARKWAY, BRONX · 10 open
  7. 701 ELTON AVENUE, BRONX · 9 open
  8. 145 ALBANY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 9 open
  9. 2381 VALENTINE AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open
  10. 2865 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, BRONX · 8 open

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The law behind this order

Order 553is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2011, "Cleaning of interior shared space". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2011 Cleaning of interior shared space · Browse open § 27-2011 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.