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Vermin and pests violations in Manhattan.

33,074

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

What this means

Rodent and roach conditions are hazardous violations that require eradication and, in repeat cases, integrated pest management. Open items compound quickly across inspections.

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

Vermin and pests 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 3,829. February carries the fewest at 2,104.

MonthViolations
January2,360
February2,104
March2,517
April2,722
May2,668
June2,867
July2,713
August3,829
September3,403
October3,278
November2,657
December2,379

By class

HPD sorts every vermin and pests 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 34,190 Class C vermin and pests violations, immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours. It has issued 73 Class B, hazardous, correct within 30 days, and 3 Class A, not hazardous, correct within 90 days.

3Class A: not hazardous, correct within 90 days.
73Class B: hazardous, correct within 30 days.
34,190Class C: immediately hazardous, correct within 24 hours.

Class C is 99.8% of the 34,266 vermin and pests violations recorded in Manhattan.

The certification record

Of 34,190 Class C vermin and pests violations in Manhattan, 16,290 have ever been certified corrected, 47.6%. Correction took a median of 27 days and a 90th percentile of 35 days. 12,400 have sat open more than a year with no certification on file.

6.0% of vermin and pests 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 34,266 vermin and pests violations, 16.3% of the citywide total of 210,088. Here is every borough's total for the same category.

BoroughVermin and pests violations
Bronx89,251
Brooklyn61,441
Manhattan34,266
Queens20,534
Staten Island4,596

Where it concentrates

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

StreetOpen violations
St Nicholas Avenue533
Broadway516
Amsterdam Avenue485
Adam C Powell Boulevard427
Frederick Douglass Boulevard359
2 Avenue245
Riverside Drive236
Audubon Avenue201

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

The status breakdown

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

StatusViolations
Violation Dismissed12,091
Violation Closed7,214
Notice Of Issuance Sent To Tenant7,011
Not Complied With2,060
First No Access To Re- Inspect Violation1,993
Defect Letter Issued1,739
Violation Will Be Reinspected639
Invalid Certification334
Nov Sent Out319
Nov Certified Late316
Civ14 Mailed298
False Certification136
Nov Certified On Time58
Violation Open26
Second No Access To Re-Inspect Violation16
Certification Postponment Denied11
Certification Postponment Granted5

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 34,266 vermin and pests violation rows in Manhattan. Sources: NYC Open Data (HPD violations), cited not linked. The citywide record, this week’s docket, ViolationScout.