The record, live: Manhattan

Lead paint violations in Manhattan.

lead paint violations cited in Manhattan in the trailing 3 years, read from the city’s open-data API at this deploy.

How a violation reaches this record

Most rows here start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if an inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From that point the violation is searchable on HPD Online by address. It stays on the public record used throughout this site until the agency accepts a correction or the agency closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.

The monthly pattern

Lead paint violations HPD has cited in Manhattan, by calendar month, over the last 36 complete months so every month is counted across the same three years. June carries the most at 1,102. July carries the fewest at 714.

By class

HPD sorts every lead paint violation into one of three classes, and the class sets the correction window and how urgently an owner must act. In Manhattan, HPD has issued 10,377 Class C lead paint violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 1,011 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

Class C is 91.1% of the 11,388 lead paint violations recorded in Manhattan.

The certification record

Of 10,377 Class C lead paint violations in Manhattan, 2,073 have ever been certified corrected, 20.0%. Correction took a median of 37 days and a 90th percentile of 55 days. 6,219 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

1.4% of lead paint violations in Manhattan are currently marked Not Complied With, HPD's status once the certify-by date passes without an accepted certification.

After a certification is filed

Filing a certification does not automatically close a case. If HPD reviews the paperwork and finds it insufficient, the case moves to Defect Letter Issued and the owner must refile. If a reinspection later finds the condition still uncorrected despite a certification on file, the case moves to Invalid Certification. A certification accepted after the certify-by date is marked NOV Certified Late rather than on time; one accepted before it is marked NOV Certified On Time. Each of these statuses carries its own page in the status glossary, decoded in plain language.

Against the citywide figure

Manhattan has recorded 11,388 lead paint violations, 15.0% of the citywide total of 76,106. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

Where it concentrates

The streets carrying the most open lead paint violations in Manhattan, aggregated by street, never by building or owner:

Open means the current status is neither Violation Dismissed nor Violation Closed.

The status breakdown

Every current status HPD has recorded against a lead paint violation in Manhattan, most common first. Each status name links to its own page in the glossary where one exists.

Aggregates only; no building or owner is named here. The monthly, class, certification, street, and status figures above are queried from HPD's own violation record, pulled August 27, 2026, based on 11,388 lead paint violation rows in Manhattan. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.