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Ulations. Scrape And Remove Rust Scales And Paint With

HPD order 561 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014 · written Dec 29, 1972 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 17,550 violations under order 561, "Ulations. Scrape And Remove Rust Scales And Paint With", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014. 5,675 are open right now, 5,121 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
5,675
Open past deadline
5,121
Closed
11,875
All time
17,550
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 561 is actually enforced

  • 1,656 notices (9.4%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 83 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 25 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 75 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 3,307 notices (18.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 3,313 notices (18.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-561 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,411
MANHATTAN1,462
BRONX1,128
QUEENS640
STATEN ISLAND34

Buildings with the most open order-561 violations

  1. 500 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, BRONX · 28 open
  2. 3205 EMMONS AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 19 open
  3. 533 WEST 145 STREET, MANHATTAN · 18 open
  4. 14 WOODSIDE AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 16 open
  5. 2325 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 15 open
  6. 228 WEST 13 STREET, MANHATTAN · 13 open
  7. 1980 UNIONPORT ROAD, BRONX · 13 open
  8. 3565 BRUCKNER BOULEVARD, BRONX · 13 open
  9. 2400 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 12 open
  10. 143 WEST 140 STREET, MANHATTAN · 11 open

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The law behind this order

Order 561is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2014, "Window frames and fire escapes". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2014 Window frames and fire escapes · Browse open § 27-2014 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.