Lead paint violations in Manhattan.
1.5% of Manhattan’s lead paint violations are marked Not Complied With, against 0.9% citywide.
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11,018 lead paint violations cited in Manhattan over the last three years.
What this means
Lead paint violations in homes where a child may live are among the most serious violations HPD writes. A certified firm has to do the abatement, and the owner then certifies the correction with HPD.
If you own the building. Time does not clear an HPD lead paint violation. It stays open until a certification is filed and accepted or HPD closes it, and a sale, a refinance or a permit review reads the building’s history. What to do if it is your building.
If you work Manhattan for a living. Manhattan carries 2,537 Class C lead paint violations more than a year old with nothing filed against them.
Our current feed holds 604 Manhattan case files across all categories, and 332 of them carry ten or more open Class C hazards. The median file carries 20. We can send a hand-checked file of the open Class C lead paint violations here.
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If you rent here. An inspector stood in the building and wrote these up. What these numbers cannot tell you is whether the repair happened, only whether a certification was filed. What each status means.
Manhattan, by category: Heat and hot water, Vermin and pests, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs
How an HPD lead paint violation gets issued
Most of these violations start with a tenant's call to 311. HPD schedules an inspection, and if the inspector confirms the condition, HPD issues a violation and mails the owner a Notice of Violation. From then on anyone can look it up on HPD Online by address, and it stays open until HPD accepts a correction or closes the case another way. See how HPD, DOB, and OATH/ECB fit together.
When Manhattan lead paint violations are cited, by month
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 has the most, 1,102. July has the fewest, 718.
Lead paint violations by class: A, B and C
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 10,729 Class C lead paint violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 21 days. It has issued 1,018 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 0 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.
Class C is 91.3% of the 11,747 lead paint violations recorded in Manhattan.
How often Manhattan lead paint violations get certified corrected
The certification rate on Manhattan’s Class C lead paint violations is 19.8%: 2,128 filings against 10,729 violations issued. Half of those filings came within 37 days of the inspection and nine in ten within 55. 2,537 violations, 23.6%, are more than a year old with nothing filed.
When an inspector goes back and finds the condition still there, HPD marks the violation Not Complied With. In Manhattan that is 1.5% of lead paint violations.
Lead paint takes longer to certify than any of the other five categories, and the violations that name abatement take roughly twice as long again. Abatement and certification, measured.
What happens after an HPD certification is filed
HPD reads the certification before anything closes. Documents with a defect come back as Invalid Certification and have to be filed again. A reinspection that finds the cited condition not properly corrected comes back as False Certification, the worse of the two. A filing made inside the certify-by date shows NOV Certified On Time, and one made outside it NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Defect Letter Issued is the reverse case: the inspector saw the fix, and the documents are what is missing. The glossary covers each status.
Manhattan against the rest of New York City
Against a citywide total of 78,316 lead paint violations, Manhattan accounts for 11,747, or 15.0%. The five boroughs compare like this.
| Borough | Lead paint violations |
|---|---|
| Bronx | 32,398 |
| Brooklyn | 24,483 |
| Manhattan | 11,747 |
| Queens | 9,096 |
| Staten Island | 592 |
Which Manhattan streets carry the most open lead paint violations
Open lead paint violations in Manhattan are not spread evenly. Counted by street, the heaviest run like this.
| Street | Open violations |
|---|---|
| Broadway | 392 |
| St Nicholas Avenue | 294 |
| Riverside Drive | 142 |
| Sherman Avenue | 113 |
| Ft Washington Avenue | 108 |
| Audubon Avenue | 107 |
| Seaman Avenue | 102 |
| Wadsworth Avenue | 102 |
Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.
Manhattan buildings with open lead paint violations
Each of these Manhattan buildings has its own page. They are 12 of the 462 with open lead paint violations, picked again each week and listed by street, not by count. Each count covers lead paint violations only, counted on October 17, 2026.
- 319 Edgecombe Avenue, Manhattan 1 open Class C lead paint violation
- 97 Seaman Avenue, Manhattan 10 open Class C lead paint violations
- 1 Sickles Street, Manhattan 12 open Class C lead paint violations
- 666 St Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan 4 open Class C lead paint violations
- 82 Wadsworth Avenue, Manhattan 5 open Class C lead paint violations
- 45 Wadsworth Terrace, Manhattan 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 530 West 123 Street, Manhattan 17 open Class C lead paint violations
- 228 West 147 Street, Manhattan 7 open Class C lead paint violations
- 538 West 159 Street, Manhattan 13 open Class C lead paint violations
- 452 West 164 Street, Manhattan 6 open Class C lead paint violations
- 562 West 175 Street, Manhattan 2 open Class C lead paint violations
- 564 West 189 Street, Manhattan 24 open Class C lead paint violations
Every HPD status on Manhattan lead paint violations
HPD gives every violation a status that says where the case stands. Here is each one on Manhattan’s lead paint violations, heaviest first, with the glossary behind every name.
Cite this page
ViolationScout, Manhattan lead paint violations, read from our copy of HPD's Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset (NYC Open Data, wvxf-dwi5). Figures through October 17, 2026, read on October 19, 2026. https://violationscout.com/nyc/manhattan-lead-paint
Monthly, class, certification, street and status figures count HPD violations whose description matches lead paint in Manhattan; the three-year count at the top is read from the city's open-data API when the page is built. Source: NYC Open Data. How every figure here is counted: /methodology.
The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 11,747 lead paint violations in Manhattan. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.