Vermin and pest violations in Manhattan.

6.3% of Manhattan’s vermin and pest violations are marked Not Complied With, against 6.8% citywide.

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32,748 vermin and pest violations cited in Manhattan over the last three years.

What this means

A rodent or roach condition is a hazardous violation. The owner has to get rid of the pests, and repeat cases call for integrated pest management. Left open, these violations pile up from one inspection to the next.

Manhattan, by category: Heat and hot water, Lead paint, Mold, Water leaks, Electrical. All five boroughs

How an HPD vermin and pest 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 vermin and pest violations are cited, by month

Vermin and pest 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 has the most, 3,531. February has the fewest, 2,104.

Vermin and pest violations by class: A, B and C

HPD sorts every vermin and pest 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 35,574 Class C vermin and pest violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 21 days. It has issued 75 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 3 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days. The windows are from HPD's correction table.

Class C is 99.8% of the 35,652 vermin and pest violations recorded in Manhattan.

How often Manhattan vermin and pest violations get certified corrected

16,828 of Manhattan’s 35,574 Class C vermin and pest violations have ever been certified corrected, 47.3%. Those certifications came a median of 27 days after the inspection, and 35 days at the 90th percentile. 7,526 have gone more than a year with no certification at all, 21.2% of the class.

6.3% of Manhattan’s vermin and pest violations are now marked Not Complied With, the status HPD sets when a reinspection finds the condition still there.

What happens after an HPD certification is filed

A filed certification is not a closed case. HPD reviews the documents, and documents with a defect send the case to Invalid Certification, which means filing again. A reinspection that finds the condition not properly corrected sends it to False Certification instead. The filing date sets the rest: filed by the certify-by date, the violation shows NOV Certified On Time; filed after it, NOV Certified Late, which HPD does not accept. Defect Letter Issued is the inspector seeing the condition corrected while HPD still waits on documents. The status glossary explains each one.

Manhattan against the rest of New York City

Citywide, HPD has written 219,494 vermin and pest violations. 35,652 of them are in Manhattan, 16.2%, and the table below sets that beside the other four boroughs.

Which Manhattan streets carry the most open vermin and pest violations

Grouped by street, this is where Manhattan’s open vermin and pest violations sit.

Open means HPD still lists the violation as open.

Manhattan buildings with open vermin and pest violations

Listed by street, a different 12 each week: 12 of the 1,216 Manhattan buildings with open vermin and pest violations and a page of their own here. Each count covers vermin and pest violations only, counted on October 17, 2026.

• 3481 Broadway, Manhattan 7 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 29 East 2 Street, Manhattan 37 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 331 Edgecombe Avenue, Manhattan 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 153 Norfolk Street, Manhattan 17 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 666 St Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan 7 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 82 Wadsworth Avenue, Manhattan 9 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 103 West 72 Street, Manhattan 3 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 138 West 140 Street, Manhattan 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 542 West 142 Street, Manhattan 7 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 206 West 149 Street, Manhattan 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 705 West 170 Street, Manhattan 9 open Class C vermin and pest violations
• 560 West 174 Street, Manhattan 11 open Class C vermin and pest violations

Every HPD status on Manhattan vermin and pest violations

The status tells you what happened to a vermin and pest violation. Here is how they break down in Manhattan, most common first; the glossary explains each.

The tables count violations across the borough, from our copy of HPD’s data: 35,652 vermin and pest violations in Manhattan. The buildings listed above link to their own pages; no owner is named here. Citywide, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.