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Mold violations in Manhattan.

18,739

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

What this means

Mold conditions trigger correction requirements under the housing maintenance code and, at scale, Local Law 55 obligations. The record tracks each cited condition until certified.

In the verified feed

610 case files in Manhattan right now, 333 carrying ten or more open Class C hazards, median 20 per file. Stamped August 25, 2026, refreshed nightly.

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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

Mold 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. August carries the most at 2,074. December carries the fewest at 1,280.

MonthViolations
January1,356
February1,457
March1,747
April1,615
May1,390
June1,521
July1,426
August2,074
September1,807
October1,823
November1,495
December1,280

By class

HPD sorts every mold 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 1,781 Class C mold violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 8,826 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 8,682 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

8,682Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
8,826Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
1,781Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 9.2% of the 19,289 mold violations recorded in Manhattan.

The certification record

Of 1,781 Class C mold violations in Manhattan, 275 have ever been certified corrected, 15.4%. Correction took a median of 33 days and a 90th percentile of 262 days. 1,097 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

1.8% of mold 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 19,289 mold violations, 15.0% of the citywide total of 128,715. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughMold violations
Bronx52,922
Brooklyn39,450
Manhattan19,289
Queens14,093
Staten Island2,961

Where it concentrates

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

StreetOpen violations
St Nicholas Avenue256
Broadway254
Amsterdam Avenue203
Riverside Drive150
Adam C Powell Boulevard143
2 Avenue142
Frederick Douglass Boulevard121
Ft Washington Avenue108

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

The status breakdown

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

StatusViolations
Violation Closed8,713
Violation Dismissed3,209
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation2,448
Defect Letter Issued2,013
Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant1,625
Violation Will Be Reinspected416
Not Complied With346
Nov Sent Out166
Civ14 Mailed122
Invalid Certification111
Nov Certified Late56
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation39
Violation Open12
Nov Certified On Time4
Certification Postponment Granted4
Certification Postponment Denied4
False Certification1

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 19,289 mold violation rows in Manhattan. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.