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Abate The Nuisance Consisting Of Bedbugs In The Entire

HPD order 870 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018 · written Oct 14, 2009 – Jul 30, 2026

HPD has written 2,729 violations under order 870, "Abate The Nuisance Consisting Of Bedbugs In The Entire", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018. 1,489 are open right now, 1,482 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
1,489
Open past deadline
1,482
Closed
1,240
All time
2,729
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 870 is actually enforced

  • 48 notices (1.8%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 35 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.
  • 43 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 92 notices (3.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 323 notices (11.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-870 violations by borough

BROOKLYN601
QUEENS499
BRONX213
STATEN ISLAND174
MANHATTAN2

Buildings with the most open order-870 violations

  1. 142-16 BASCOM AVENUE, QUEENS · 12 open
  2. 559 NEW LOTS AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 10 open
  3. 584 CRESCENT STREET, BROOKLYN · 8 open
  4. 446 ASHFORD STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  5. 2850 WEST 16 STREET, BROOKLYN · 7 open
  6. 1645 CASTLETON AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND · 7 open
  7. 216-11 136 AVENUE, QUEENS · 6 open
  8. 2473 VALENTINE AVENUE, BRONX · 6 open
  9. 3858 CARPENTER AVENUE, BRONX · 6 open
  10. 860 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN · 6 open

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The law behind this order

Order 870is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018, "Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2018 Rodent and insect eradication; mandatory extermination · Browse open § 27-2018 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.