ECB / OATH violation class · code Quality of Life
Quality of Life
70,070 violations of this type are in the public record, the earliest from 1988. 12,672 are open now, carrying $56,676,895 in unpaid penalties.
Open now
12,672
Closed
57,398
All time
70,070
Unpaid penalties
$56,676,895
What this type means
Summonses from agencies like DSNY and DEP for sanitation, noise and similar street-level offenses attached to the property.
How it gets cleared
Resolve the summons at OATH; recurring quality-of-life summonses on a building are usually an operations problem, not a one-off.
Open Quality of Life violations by borough
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Counts refresh hourly from NYC Open Data. Last computed 8/5/2026, 2:27:46 PM ET.