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Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of

HPD order 856 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013 · written Feb 7, 2000 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 24,966 violations under order 856, "Paint With Light Colored Paint To The Satisfaction Of", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2013. 15,540 are open right now, 15,068 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
15,540
Open past deadline
15,068
Closed
9,426
All time
24,966
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 856 is actually enforced

  • 460 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 250 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 4 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 146 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,353 notices (21.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 2,658 notices (10.6%) were dismissed.

Open order-856 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,575
QUEENS4,723
BRONX2,692
STATEN ISLAND1,498
MANHATTAN52

Buildings with the most open order-856 violations

  1. 738 NEW JERSEY AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 45 open
  2. 1200 EAST 95 STREET, BROOKLYN · 29 open
  3. 357 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
  4. 52 HARBOR ROAD, STATEN ISLAND · 22 open
  5. 149 ROGERS AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 21 open
  6. 2517 CRUGER AVENUE, BRONX · 19 open
  7. 101-27 98 STREET, QUEENS · 18 open
  8. 77 HARRISON AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 18 open
  9. 1602 EAST 49 STREET, BROOKLYN · 17 open
  10. 40-14 GREENPOINT AVENUE, QUEENS · 17 open

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The law behind this order

Order 856is 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.