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Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of

HPD order 556 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written May 4, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 562,398 violations under order 556, "Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 106,771 are open right now, 96,339 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
106,771
Open past deadline
96,339
Closed
455,627
All time
562,398
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 556 is actually enforced

  • 12,689 notices (2.3%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 2,467 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 506 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,381 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 35,834 notices (6.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 174,758 notices (31.1%) were dismissed.

Open order-556 violations by borough

BROOKLYN39,462
BRONX30,294
MANHATTAN22,734
QUEENS13,277
STATEN ISLAND1,004

Buildings with the most open order-556 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 157 open
  2. 760 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 123 open
  3. 655 EAST 234 STREET, BRONX · 95 open
  4. 2344 DAVIDSON AVENUE, BRONX · 93 open
  5. 8501 FT HAMILTON PARKWAY, BROOKLYN · 92 open
  6. 1555 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX · 80 open
  7. 754 MILLER AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 79 open
  8. 1097 WALTON AVENUE, BRONX · 72 open
  9. 1705 ANDREWS AVENUE, BRONX · 65 open
  10. 1777 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX · 65 open

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The law behind this order

Order 556is 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.