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Remove Or Cover In A Manner Approved By The

HPD order 555 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written May 24, 1982 – Jun 6, 2007

HPD has written 29,725 violations under order 555, "Remove Or Cover In A Manner Approved By The", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 12,191 are open right now, 12,191 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
12,191
Open past deadline
12,191
Closed
17,534
All time
29,725
Class C (immediately hazardous)
29,725

How order 555 is actually enforced

  • 583 notices (2.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 157 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 157 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 479 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 271 notices (0.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 565 notices (1.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-555 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,033
MANHATTAN2,961
BRONX2,158
QUEENS1,033
STATEN ISLAND6

Buildings with the most open order-555 violations

  1. 530 WEST 144 STREET, MANHATTAN · 49 open
  2. 1067 EASTERN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN · 48 open
  3. 30 WEST 190 STREET, BRONX · 45 open
  4. 125 WEST 111 STREET, MANHATTAN · 41 open
  5. 1185 FULTON AVENUE, BRONX · 40 open
  6. 368 CONVENT AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 38 open
  7. 2566 BAINBRIDGE AVENUE, BRONX · 38 open
  8. 465 WEST 166 STREET, MANHATTAN · 38 open
  9. 552 WEST 163 STREET, MANHATTAN · 36 open
  10. 312 MONTAUK AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 33 open

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The law behind this order

Order 555is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013, "Painting of public parts and within dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2013 Painting of public parts and within dwellings · Browse open § 27-2013 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.