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Trace And Repair The Source And Abate The Visible

HPD order 550 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3 · written Aug 26, 2004 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 363,559 violations under order 550, "Trace And Repair The Source And Abate The Visible", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3. 91,070 are open right now, 85,191 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
91,070
Open past deadline
85,191
Closed
272,489
All time
363,559
Class C (immediately hazardous)
39,897

How order 550 is actually enforced

  • 5,565 notices (1.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 942 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 65 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 1,641 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 2,301 notices (0.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 62,351 notices (17.2%) were dismissed.

Open order-550 violations by borough

BRONX31,328
BROOKLYN30,509
MANHATTAN13,779
QUEENS12,664
STATEN ISLAND2,790

Buildings with the most open order-550 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 335 open
  2. 760 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 291 open
  3. 530 EAST 169 STREET, BRONX · 245 open
  4. 790 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 227 open
  5. 735 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 153 open
  6. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 139 open
  7. 1600 SEDGWICK AVENUE, BRONX · 100 open
  8. 1590 UNDERCLIFF AVENUE, BRONX · 98 open
  9. 2025 SEWARD AVENUE, BRONX · 75 open
  10. 1777 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX · 69 open

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The law behind this order

Order 550is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2017.3, "Violation for visible mold". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2017.3 Violation for visible mold · Browse open § 27-2017.3 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.